Quotes of: Ghost-stories Keyword

I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like 'Stop moaning and write something.'

Noel Clarke

That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?

Nick Denton

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.

Neil Gaiman

I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.

Nicole Krauss

My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.

Steven Spielberg

I say fuck the old advice 'show, don't tell.' It's called story TELLING for a reason, and I'll stick to it!

Ashly Lorenzana

I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.

Erin Morgenstern

Everybody has something to tell. Everyone has a story. I want to know yours.

The Only Exception

If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.

Once In Europa

I will take the subway and look at certain women and think 'God, that woman's story will never be told. How come that lady doesn't get a movie about her?'

Natasha Lyonne

If I'm going to try and find something, I stick to the flea markets, or I pull hand-me-downs from my family because I like pieces to have stories.

Troian Bellisario

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

Chinua Achebe

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

Dean Koontz

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

Eudora Welty

Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, it almost certainly will.

James Cameron

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not be the case for non-Indians.

Jhumpa Lahiri

I have been tossing around the idea of writing some non-fiction. Maybe a collection of short stories about my experience being a mom and how not to be perfect.

Melissa Peterman

Audiences have become so much more sophisticated, and they're looking for different eyes and different ways to tell a story. And 'Scandal' certainly gives us the freedom to take those chances.

Tom Verica

I tried to keep it secret, but the story got into the newspapers. It was more difficult for my family, who couldn't understand why the media wouldn't leave me in peace.

Grete Waitz

The story follows the whole family. But pretty much all the characters who are in jail have written a book about it, so you've got their perspective of it, however skewed they want you to see it.

Marguerite Moreau

I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother.

Rocco DiSpirito