Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

Life of Pi

Try not to be a man of success, but a man of value." - Albert Einstein

Little Bird Lost: A Rhyming Picture Story

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

Let the Great World Spin

N'aie pas peur de mes paroles: une morte ne veut plus rien, elle ne veut ni amour, ni pitié, ni réconfort.

Letter from an Unknown Woman and Other Stories

Heartache, to her, coursed through everything--which was as it should be, since people needed it to make them kind. pg. 4

Later, at the Bar: A Novel in Stories

If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

He had then warned his daughter not to violate the Eleventh Commandment. "Which one is that?" I asked her. "Do not bullshit thy father," she said.

Love Story

Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.

the legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.

The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories

Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.

The Last Slice of Rainbow and Other Stories

A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper.

The Little Silkworm

What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope.

Marvel 1602

Make your life the greatest story ever told!

Mr. Wolf V. the Three Pigs: Mr. Wolf Goes to Court

Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.

The Sea Of Forgotten Memories

The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book." ( , 3 October 1892)

Selected Prose

Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

Mam said I was growing up. I felt that I was dying.

Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories

When you find the one, when you share the spark of kismet, then it becomes inconceivable to walk through life with anyone else.

Seduced: Rose's Story

When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm

The Short Stories

old stories are like old friends (...) you have to visit them from time to time.

A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow

It's the story of the City of Women; of how it came to be, how it flourished, and how it was destroyed by a reckless and irrevocable act of mercy.

The Steel Seraglio