Quotes of: Ghost-stories Keyword

I would like to continue to tell stories of what I did in a biographical way, so I will continue to write.

Philippe Petit

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

Philip Pullman

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

Paul Samuelson

Frankly, I've got to admit that I'm not perfect and have made some mistakes as some of the colourful stories about me reveal.

Peter Slipper

...writing Jeeves stories gives me a great deal of pleasure and keeps me out of the public houses.

P.G. Wodehouse

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

Ray Bradbury

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

Ray Bradbury

All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.

Ray Bradbury

I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.

Rachel Cusk

There's clearly a lot of Ludditism, and you see it in all the hysteria about every scientific story.

Richard Dawkins

I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.

Richard Ford

'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot.

Robert Gottlieb

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

Robert Harris

I just want to tell stories that have an impact on people. Somebody needs to have an impact because people are lost. People are really lost.

Rebecca De Mornay

If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.

Seth Grahame-Smith

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

Stephen King

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.

Sophie Marceau

Readers can surprise you. Many times, they notice layers in your stories, that even you were not aware of while writing.

Shon Mehta

Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.

Steven Millhauser

These heads sheltered by umbrellas be they of Zeb-un-Nisa, or Catherine of Cleopatra or Fenichka live with their own stories

Suman Pokhrel

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

Salman Rushdie