Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.

Danny DeVito

If you think you don't want to play another psychopath, but the script is amazing, and the director is fantastic, and the story is incredible, then you may end up playing your third psychopath in a row.

Damian Lewis

The annals of business are filled with stories of companies that thought they had it made and could milk their enterprises without having to bother about improving their products or services. It's amazing how fast they found their markets disappearin...

Harvey Mackay

It was a wonderful experience to work with Sylvia. She pushed me to be more powerful with my acting, and she told me scores of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. She is amazing.

Lukas Haas

I think 'Game of Thrones' was extraordinary. I want to do some period pieces. It would be lovely to tell great stories, that is my main ambition. And to be working with amazing creators.

Stana Katic

The women I know are smart, interesting people who aren't just there to service the men's stories, so I don't know why our art continues to do that.

Carrie Coon

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.

Neil Jackson

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?

Polly Toynbee

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

Anansi Boys

Let the only things higher than the airplanes in the sky, be the stories that I tell to others and the castles that i build for myself.

Aisle Be Damned

She resented a universe that forced her to fabricate cover stories for its more inexplicable vagaries.

Artificial Gods

That is my story. Believe what you will. I remember it all; I remember it still.

Animals In My Hair

Fiction means never letting the pure truth get in the way of a good story.

The Adventures of the Omaha Kid

Because there is a need to hear one story and to tell another.

All We Know of Love

The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies

The Awakening and Selected Stories

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

Ain't She Sweet

If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.

All That's Left to You: A Novella and Short Stories

They were two ruined souls doomed to wander their minds, if not the earth, trying to remember from whence they came.

Aerogrammes: and Other Stories

Loaming is my special word for it..it's a combination of looming and roaming

Angel of Fire: Book One of Zach's Story

There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.

The Aleph and Other Stories