Quotes of: Sad-story Keyword

Dogs and children vomit in distress. Women cry. ("Dial 'O' For Operator")

Weird Shadows From Beyond: An Anthology Of Strange Stories

I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.

The World and Other Places: Stories

This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.

Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

Well, well, well," said Aitch Dee, his arms folded across his chest. "Well, well, well, well," replied Pavel, not to be out welled.

A Whole Nother Story

Loneliness is just a passing disillusion we can conquer by acknowledging those around us.

Who I Am: American Scar Stories

There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.

Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

America—where we hate our fathers, love our mothers, and everyone is hung up on trying to be a man

White Wedding Lies, and Discontent: An American Love Story

To know our refuse is to know ourselves. We mark our own trail from past to present with what we've used and consumed, fondled, rejected, outgrown.

The Winter Without Milk: Stories

In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Betty had forgotten how you only get slivers of stories from children - usually what they echo from overheard adult conversations.

When it Happens to You

at the center of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.

The You I Never Knew

Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, "and then everything burst into flames.

You Oughta Know By Now

When asked what profession they like least, most people will give the obvious answer: clowns.

The Zombie Sheriff Takes Tucson: A Love Story

This is why it is important never to pick or smell flowers, and to always wear headgear when admiring them.

The Zombie Sheriff Takes Tucson: A Love Story

From time to time there is a move to do a little less in the way of period dramas, but people rebel. Audiences say we want them. There is a big hunger for them. I don't think it's sentimentality or nostalgia, it's often that they are simply the best ...

Andrew Davies

Sometimes, I have themes that interest me or that touch on larger issues but, really, I'm just trying to figure out the plot, or how the characters work. I'm trying to make the best story I possibly can.

Brian Selznick

Really, some of the best 'X-Files' stories come right out of science. And you just apply that 'what-if' idea. Oh, what if this were true? And that's why so many times the show is scarier because it was not necessarily improbable.

Chris Carter

If I had a story idea that I felt would work best in three volumes I might write a trilogy eventually. I'd very likely write it all at once, though, so I could work on it as a whole and not broken into individual volumes.

Erin Morgenstern

I'm just looking for the best story being told by the best people and the best part that I can find. If those things add up, I want to be a part of it whether it's a studio film or, more likely in that instance, an independent film.

John Hawkes

Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best.

Linwood Barclay

I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades.

Meg Cabot