Quotes of: Ghost-stories Keyword

I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.

Maggie Stiefvater

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

Maurice Sendak

All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it's a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories.

Michael Schur

Best wishes to all the fonts in all the texts in all the books that make for a world of unfolding stories.

Michael Ray Smith

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in telling a story.

Marco Tempest

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

Mark Twain

Often, if I read a story and I'm moved, I have an understanding for a character and I don't really know why.

Mia Wasikowska

I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.

Malala Yousafzai

Since the dawn of humanity, stories have allowed each of us to be many.

Neil Gaiman

The stories that I want to tell are completely, well, somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems.

Nicole Holofcener

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.

Neil Jordan

Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.

Neil Jordan

I spent 12 years doing different things in film trying to figure out the story I wanted to tell.

Nicholas Jarecki

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.

Nigel Kneale

If there are two straight sides to every story, they’ll always be one lopsided truth.

The King of Rhyme

At its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking stories... and that requires virtually no technology.

Steven Levitan

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.

Antony Beevor

I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.

Cassandra Wilson

In truth, I have always been amazed by a group of people who all work toward putting one person's vision forward - that's an interesting story for me.

Jim Rash

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

Elizabeth Moon

If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.

Erin McKean