Quotes of: Ghost-stories Keyword

Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

Frank Miller

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

Flannery O'Connor

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

Garret Dillahunt

Bank of America is the story of some of the most ambitious, aggressive bank builders on the face of the planet.

Charles Duhigg

The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the lawyer.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Despite our challenges, hope lies in the reality that our story does not end here.

Charles F. Glassman

All our projects are like fabulous expeditions. The story of each project is unique. Our projects have no precedent.

Christo

The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality.

Craig Johnston

I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.

Christopher Nolan

I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels.

Conor Oberst

My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl.

Chuck Palahniuk

There are fantastic stories yet to be told featuring Marvel's characters, old and new, and I'm thrilled to be part of them.

Charles Soule

I know little stories that happen to people around me, and I can repeat that in a way that has some color.

Harry Dean Stanton

When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.

Imtiaz Ali

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.

Isabel Allende

I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'

Ian Mcewan

You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

Ian Mcewan

My story is so boring: Long Island Jewish parents take their daughters to Broadway.

Idina Menzel

I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

Ion Tiriac

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

Jean M. Auel

Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all.

Jane Birkin