Quotes of: Ghost-stories Keyword

'The Merchant of Venice' is a straightforward, clear story, while 'The Winter's Tale,' as a general rule, is hard to present because there is so much plot.

Jesse L. Martin

In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.

John Mellencamp

People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.

Jonathan Nolan

My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.

James Patterson

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.

Joey Skaggs

If you're going to have a complicated story, you must work to a map; otherwise you can never make a map of it afterwards.

J.R.R. Tolkien

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

Jack Vance

I'm a fisherman who likes to observe and tell yarns, and so I told stories about things that I knew about.

John D. Voelker

I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorted out.

Jacqueline Woodson

That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.

Jesmyn Ward

Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story

Chuck Wendig

my new website is now live on There are free short stories to download on it. Have fun!

Daniel Borough

Love a girl and she will give you a story to tell, Love a woman and she will give you a novel to pen...

Dinesh Kumar Biran

I'm completely ecstatic when a woman has own back story and brings something to the table and has a real strong kind of independence.

Dane Cook

All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are.

David Christian

If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.

Damien Chazelle

What one's goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories.

Diane Mott Davidson

For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum.

Dominick Dunne

In every story of solipsism, there is always a conspiracy. Why? Because there is always a background involved in every perception.

Douglas Lain

Every role is physical to a certain extent, but as a viewer, I don't respond well to actors doing more than they need to tell a story.

Jamie Dornan

There are so many projects that you go into hoping the story works, and here comes a new third act and that kind of thing.

Jeff Daniels