Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

William Shatner

Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

Yayoi Kusama

If you are reading this, you are still alive, and, therefore, the story is not over. Something else could happen.

How to Make Peace

The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.

How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.

History of the Rain

She is too absorbed in the difficulties of being seventeen to want to hear the confusions of forty-four.

Homeland and Other Stories

It is a sound like loneliness—enough to let you know you’re there, but not enough to fill you with life.

How They Met, and Other Stories

Enlightenment is scary. Sometimes things look better in the dark.

How They Met, and Other Stories

The question is there in each silence. The question is there in the space between you. But you cannot bring it aloud.

How They Met, and Other Stories

We lost track of time because we felt like time had lost track of us.

How They Met, and Other Stories

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

The Island of the Day Before

Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.

Invisible Monsters

Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page any more than they begin on the first page

Inkspell

We were all of us alone, kept wrapped up tight by our sins.

Irregular Verbs and Other Stories

I'm fine. Well, I'm not fine - I'm here." "Is there something wrong with that?" "Absolutely.

It's Kind of a Funny Story

I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

It's Kind of a Funny Story

When you mess something up, you learn for the next time.

It's Kind of a Funny Story

Love I must forego. I am not a man with an income.

An Itinerant House, And Other Ghost Stories

We have story-makers and we have writers apparently most of the today's writing falls into the first category.

Just the Way I Feel

The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful.

Just Another War Story

...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.

Kushiel's Dart