Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

The Secret Life of Bees:

You can tell your story any way you damn well please. Its your solo.

The Sky is Everywhere

They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.

Stories I Only Tell My Friends

ANYTHING IN THIS UNIVERSE CAN BE A STORY WORTH TELLING, AS LONG AS YOU KNOW HOW TO BEST TELL IT.

Screenwriting 101 by Film Crit Hulk!

I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.

Shamanspace

Since the beginning of time there was always stories like this,” he replies. “As children we reveled in the dream that there was a place out there that was different from the one we lived in.

Skye

He wondered fleetingly how many people who sat alone for hours as they scribbled their stories practiced talking about their work during their coffee breaks....

The Silkworm

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

Slammerkin

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

Money, Possessions and Eternity

It is the story that matters not just the ending.

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

Courage, kindness and a great determination to succeed in life with a smile were hallmarks of my wonderful wife. And why her story deserves to be told.

Make It Happen

We were made to be distracted by life, by story.

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

I can forgive almost any crime if a great story is left in its wake.

My Reading Life

The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.

Men Explain Things to Me

Every word Martone sets down, finally, a choice that limits the universe, their trail across the page a fossil record of some life's life-story.

Michael Martone

Stories have a job to do. They can't just lie around like lazybone dogs. They have to teach you something.

Mister Pip

Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart

Merlin

When you get older, you think of sadness in a different way. You don't judge it so harshly.

The Mountain Story

A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.

The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

I had to get a close-hand view of the misery and unhappiness of a man made world, before I reached the point where I could successfully revolt against it.

My Own Story

I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women's hands not only as a right but as a desperate necessity.

My Own Story