Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

These stories depressed me. Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.

Casebook

The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.

The Complete Stories

My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.

The Complete Short Stories

He shouldn't say things like that in front of the artworks, especially when they're angry, but he always does.

The Color of Darkness and Other Stories

In this cage, behind these bars, I think of you and me.

Caged View: A Collection of Urban Fantasy Short Stories

I believe that 99 percent of what anyone does can effectively be postponed.

The Collected Stories

When he got a story urge, there was nothing to do but grab a pen and write. Otherwise it was too much like getting a hard-on and not jerking off.

The Coming Storm

No matter how hard you try to create a story that's completely fictional, parts of your own experience are bound to surface.

Chain Mail: Addicted to You

Sorry, there´s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story.

Don't Eat This Book

...the air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her.

Daughter of Smoke & Bone

Why do I write? Because I like telling stories and I don't like repeating myself (insert chuckle here).

Dream Caster

..so Grandpa turned the rusty latchkey of his magnificent remembery and set free a symphony of stories

The Duck and the Darklings

I can’t protect you from the stars, but I can tell you stories that may help at night when they are staring at you.

Drama: Pilot Episode

Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt hollow and empty and aching.

Daughter of the Forest

Storytelling--that's not the future. The future, I'm afraid, is flashes and impulses. It's mode up of moments and fragments, and stories won't survive.

The Dream of Perpetual Motion

I saw the last piece of innocence unfurl inside of her. -Nick Plato (from the story Platonick)

Dragons and Cicadas: The Society On Da Run

An unedited manuscript is a first draft of story; but is not a finished product. Too many writers study the craft of writing but do not acquire the skills of an editor.

The Daddy Rock

No, it’s not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

Different Seasons

To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.

Drinking: A Love Story

And fairy tales are make-believe. They are the stories we tell to small children to make them believe the world is a far better place than it really is.

Deep Into the Soul

Bullying is a horrible thing. It sticks with you forever. It poisons you. But only if you let it.

Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories