Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form.

Looking for God in Harry Potter

You can point to the alleged miracles of the Bible, or any other religious text, but they are nothing but old stories fabricated by man and then exaggerated over time.

The Lost Symbol

Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories

What the hell makes you smart?" I asked. "I wouldn't go for coffee with you." "Listen - I wouldn't ask you." "That," she replied, "is what makes you stupid.

Love Story

I wonder why people work so hard to become politicians just in order to do something wrong.

Lieutenant Lockeast, And Other Stories

There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.

Lisey's Story

If you’re always looking back at what you’ve lost, you’ll never discover the treasure that lies just up ahead.

Learning to Love - Saul's Story:

Dad instantly set out his stall:he wanted a big dog, a 'man dog',a dog that if it was human would enjoy a pint and stare at the barmaid's arse

Look Who It Is!: My Story

Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.

Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories

Never does one so constantly see so many different things as when peering from a small window.

Lieutenant Lockeast, And Other Stories

You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone!

The Little Silkworm

My stories are my children. Some are sweet infants that I coddle and care for. Others are old enough now, they need to damn well get a job!

The Little Silkworm

story telling is not a career, it's a calling. I've been writing true and compelling news my entire professional life. My novels are packs of lies

Last Witness

Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist.

Message in a Bottle

But marrying within one's own family can get monotonous. One has heard all the same family stories, knows all the jokes and all the same recipes. No novelty.

Memoirs of Cleopatra

There is nothing quite like this novel with its rage and ragings, its discontent and angry restlessness. Wuthering Heights is a virgin's story.

Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

The Summer Without Men

I know of other mothers who have children with disabilities,and right away they loved them and decided to fight for them. That isn’t my story.

Sun Shine Down: A Memoir

I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a story, don't they?

Summer of the Gypsy Moths

The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.

The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes