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[Dennis] Etchison would write stories that were just punch lines at the end. You wouldn't realize something horrific was happening until the last paragraph.

Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story.

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.

Depending on the story, I don't feel that the music is disappearing. I feel if the story demands songs, they'll have songs. If it doesn't demand songs, you'll have underscore.

Description needs to slide into a story like a snake through grass - silently, almost invisibly, without calling attention to itself. It should enrich every story moment without slowing the action.

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. Theyre about telling stories.

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story ... Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. The only point in the case which deserved mention was the curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes, by which I succeeded in unravelling it.'' —Sherlock Holmes on John Watson's "pamphlet", "A Study in Scarlet".

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

Did you see The Never-Ending Story? That's one kick-ass dragon. It's basically a giant puppy dragon.

Dig into almost every overnight success story and you’ll find about a decade’s worth of hard work and perseverance.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.

Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story.

Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are.

Disney is a huge presence when it comes to fairy tales because he’s made of them such brilliant artifacts in terms of movie-making. But it’s very hard to ignore what he’s done to them. I'm not interested in denigrating Disney or even commenting on him very much. I'm more interested in seeing what I can do with the stories myself.

Diversity in literature is, in part, about representation - who is telling the stories and who stories are told about.

Doctor Strange is an origin story so there's a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.

Documentarian Laura Poitras has crafted a first-rate Hitchcockian-type thriller telling the story of Edward Snowden.

Documentaries - my God, there is so much going on in our country and in the world today that every time you open the newspaper or turn on the radio or watch the news on TV there is another documentary subject. We're getting the headlines for a second, shaped by corporate delivery most of the time, but what's really the story there?

Does research get in the way of the story? It certainly can. Anything can, given that as writers we're all geniuses at procrastination. But mostly research teaches me about the world. Which often shows me the way, in terms of the story.

Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.

Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian regime: the threat of imprisonment, torture and death; the threat to one's family, the terror of being alone in a hostile world.

[Donald Trump] is saying that these stories of A-listers turning him down, "We're not asking 'em. I want the people at my inauguration." And I think that's probably true.

[Donald] Trump wanted the nomination, and all these other Republicans and their supporters didn't want Trump to have the nomination. So who became the villains? What Trump wanted became the story. "Will he get it? Will Trump get to 1,237?" Did not Ted Cruz become a villain in the middle of this by virtue of trying to stop the hero by getting delegates in all of the state conventions?

Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

Don't be sorry, Callie,' he says with a heavy-hearted sigh. 'You have your own sad story.

Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.

Don't lecture someone on their choices when you don't know their story.

Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.

Don't have too much story for the time you have.

Don't go into great detail describing places and things, unless you're ­Margaret Atwood and can paint scenes with language. You don't want descriptions that bring the action, the flow of the story, to a standstill.

Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin.

Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it.

Don't have stories; have sentences.

Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth.

Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.

Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.

Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means.

Don't waste your time searching and wishing. Grow and be ready...and you'll see God will give you a love story far better than you could ever dreamed of.

Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.

Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.

Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer.