Quotes of: Ghost-stories Keyword

One of the reasons I started working at 'South Park,' actually, was that I wanted to learn how to structure things and how to tell a story.

Bill Hader

Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Brad Holland

Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

Barbara Kingsolver

That's literally been the story of my career. I'm always the second choice. And you know what? I'm more than happy to be that person.

Bianca Kajlich

I was involved with the Batman. There are two sides to every story. Now you've heard my side.

Bob Kane

How can an article about me or the Batman be the true story when I am not consulted or interviewed?

Bob Kane

When I set out to research the story of the Culper Spy Ring, I had no idea where it would take me.

Brian Kilmeade

I had so much fun playing songs from 'Based On A True Story...' and getting to see the crowd's reaction to those songs was unforgettable.

Blake Shelton

The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.

Bernie Worrell

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

Chinua Achebe

The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.

Carlton Cuse

'The New Yorker's fiction podcast I like a lot, where they have authors pick short stories by other authors that appeared in 'The New Yorker.'

Gillian Jacobs

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

Gloria Naylor

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.

George Saunders

Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.

George Stephen

A story is a really weird art object that should contain life but not be enslaved by the banality.

George Saunders

I've often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently.

Howard Barker

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

Helen Dunmore

I'll walk through the fire With my head lifted high And my spirit revived In Your story

Hillsong

Eroticism bubbles beneath the surface of every vampire story, but Anne Rice is a writer to make the pot boil.

Janet Maslin

Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.

Jason Mraz