Quotes of: Life-story Keyword

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

There ain't nobody in the world like book people. It's a business of gentlemen and gentlewomen.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

You tell a kid he doesn't like to read, and he'll believe you

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

She doesn't recognize the number—none of her friends use their phones as phones anymore.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

What makes God real for anyone is faith.

Waking Up in Heaven: A True Story of Brokenness, Heaven, and Life Again

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

Ray Bradbury

You see Jesus wrecked my life

Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption

Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys.

Bobby Farrelly

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.

Mitch Albom

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.

Paul Tournier

That has been my entire life story, running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated.

Rem Koolhaas

I said that I have finished telling my story, not that the story is finished. I said before that no story is ever really finished, each one is part of a longer story and consists of smaller stories, some of which are told, others passed over in silen...

The Architect of Ruins

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life 'outside' the story changes the story.

David Foster Wallace

Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away.

Tell Me a Story: The Life-Shaping Power of Our Stories

A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.

Karen Thompson Walker

How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told abo...

The Sense of an Ending

This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven’t. I’ve never once thought about the interpretative, the story telling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in ...

The Sky is Everywhere

Our willingness to write truthfully brings the story to life.

The 90-Day Novel: Unlock the story within

To call up modern versions of the old stories, one has to go forth and live life. As a result then, one will have the challenge of not only living the story, taking it all in, but also interpreting it in whatever ways are useful. So too, one will rea...

Joseph Campbell