Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.

Selected Operas and Plays

My life story is too long to tweet. Too long by two characters—and by characters I don’t mean Dora J. Arod and Dark Jar Tin Zoo.

Sleepwalking is restercise

In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

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

It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.

Sorry Please Thank You: Stories

But dying is for the sweetest ones. And he remembers sweetness, when life was sweet, and sweetly he was given that other lifetime.

Short Cuts: Selected Stories

On the worst days, I feel fine. On the best days, I know I am not.

Sorry Please Thank You: Stories

Oh," He thought, "There is something with this girl." James thoughts regarding Kristen in "Top From The Bottom" a short story in Six Ways From Sunday.

Six Ways from Sunday

Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality.

Super Sad True Love Story

The story of the book filled the car with exciting adventures of the sort that are fun to read about, so we didn’t have to think about the exciting adventures of the sort that are no fun to live through.

Shouldn't You Be in School?

Don’t bury it, use it. Don’t keep it in, give it away. Don’t turn that love in, turn that love out.

Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime: Stories

I don't correct her to let her know her backdoor wisdom yanks me deep into another country, where water runs uphill.

Sandcastle and Other Stories

The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.

The Society of the Spectacle

The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect.

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

It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.

Slow Learner: Early Stories

Maybe that was the best part. The beautiful peace that came with living her own story, knowing every turn of the page and tug of the heart was a new beginning.

From the Start

If we possess narrative sympathy - enabling us to see the world from other's point of view - we cannot kill. If we do not, we cannot love.

On Stories

Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.

The Storyteller

People are wonderful. Each one has a story, each something to give, each knows something interesting, something that can make your life richer.

Small and Simple Things

If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.

The Storyteller

Our story has been told, our song has been sung. You're a road I’ve already traveled, and from it, I have moved on. "Already Traveled

Sins Within