Quotes of: Ghost-stories Keyword

It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.

Michael Ondaatje

Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are 'Twilight'-ish with metrosexual guys.

Mark Pellegrino

Fiction isn't truer than life: it just makes a better story.

Marty Rubin

Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.

Maria Semple

Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them.

Marilyn vos Savant

With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous.

Mark Sheppard

Only in England would 'professor gets divorced and remarried' be a story.

Niall Ferguson

Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?

Nicole Kidman

The next best thing to christmas is...... a story worth reading.

Nadun Lokuliyanage

When we tell our stories, the gods hear our sorrows.

Karma

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

Robert Redford

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

Nigel Kneale

Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?

Ordinary Heroes

My best stories come from well-placed sources who point me in the right direction.

Wolf Blitzer

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

Derrick Jensen

When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.

Michael Shermer

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

Taylor Swift

Anyone, any type of story, it doesn't have to be a crime victim, you don't have to let yourself be food for the media.

Bernhard Goetz

I can't tell a story about a working-class family on a premium channel that you have to pay to get.

Cristela Alonzo

Reading with my children is incredibly important to me and a wonderful way to spend time together as a family, exploring magical worlds through books and stories.

Frank Lampard

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.

Gus Van Sant