Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.

George Stephen

A story is a really weird art object that should contain life but not be enslaved by the banality.

George Saunders

I've often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently.

Howard Barker

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

Helen Dunmore

I'll walk through the fire With my head lifted high And my spirit revived In Your story

Hillsong

Eroticism bubbles beneath the surface of every vampire story, but Anne Rice is a writer to make the pot boil.

Janet Maslin

Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.

Jason Mraz

'The Merchant of Venice' is a straightforward, clear story, while 'The Winter's Tale,' as a general rule, is hard to present because there is so much plot.

Jesse L. Martin

In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.

John Mellencamp

People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.

Jonathan Nolan

My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.

James Patterson

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.

Joey Skaggs

If you're going to have a complicated story, you must work to a map; otherwise you can never make a map of it afterwards.

J.R.R. Tolkien

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

Jack Vance

I'm a fisherman who likes to observe and tell yarns, and so I told stories about things that I knew about.

John D. Voelker

I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorted out.

Jacqueline Woodson

That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.

Jesmyn Ward

Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story

Chuck Wendig

my new website is now live on There are free short stories to download on it. Have fun!

Daniel Borough

Love a girl and she will give you a story to tell, Love a woman and she will give you a novel to pen...

Dinesh Kumar Biran

I'm completely ecstatic when a woman has own back story and brings something to the table and has a real strong kind of independence.

Dane Cook