Quotes of: Ghost-stories Keyword

If you ever want to get anywhere in life, you're going to have to push it, and somebody's going to push you to get there. End of story.

Charlie Trotter

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

Donald Miller

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

Gloria Swanson

You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.

Helen Mirren

If you are going to tell a story about a child going missing, it's going to have similarities with a real life child going missing.

James Nesbitt

Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life.

Kim Edwards

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

Karen Kingsbury

I've seen 'Fried Green Tomatoes' too many times. I love life stories told in flashback.

Liam James

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

Max Frisch

I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life.

Morris Gleitzman

I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.

Mindy Kaling

'Story of My Life' was essentially a two-man musical play. In hindsight, I don't know if there was room for a two-man musical on Broadway.

Will Chase

I've always been open about my life not because my story is unique, but because it isn't.

Wendy Davis

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Ani DiFranco

We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend.

Abbi Jacobson

I think I became a writer because of my love of stories and an inability to stop asking, 'What if?'

Caroline Leavitt

I like fiction. I love all sorts of love stories, I think. I even watched '17 Again.'

Charlyne Yi

I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.

David Chase

I love stories, and as I got older, I realized how important what happened yesterday is to how you try to make your present better.

Derek Waters

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

Jane Campion

It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.

Jane Campion