Quotes of: Personal-story Keyword

All good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better person from their telling - these stories always contain truth.

The Rent Collector

A person without self-expression is a person without personal freedom.

The Saint, the Surfer, and the CEO: A Remarkable Story about Living Your Heart's Desires

You can rewrite your personal story!

Over iT

The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.

The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God

I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people. There are stories that depict us in a way that isn't cliched or niche, and that a white person, a Chinese person, an Indian person can ...

David Oyelowo

While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.

Gabourey Sidibe

I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.

Barry Bonds

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

Caroline B. Cooney

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.

What's Your Story?: A Young Person's Guide to Writing Fiction

When I want to explain why empowering girls and women is critical to fighting poverty, I often tell a person's story. It's easier to relate to a personal story than to global data telling us that the majority of the billion people who live on less th...

Helene D. Gayle

And here lies the crux of the matter: to say that nature is personal may mean not so much seeing the world differently as acting differently -- or, to state it another way, it may mean interacting with more-than-human others in nature as if those oth...

Kissed by a Fox: And Other Stories of Friendship in Nature

When you're playing a real person, there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.

David Tennant

The novel space is a pure space. I'm nobody once I go into that room. I'm not gay, I'm not bald, I'm not Irish. I'm not anybody. I'm nobody. I'm the guy telling the story, and the only person that matters is the person reading that story, the target....

Colm Toibin

I feel like 'Beware' is a heartfelt song - it's something that is definitely a story, something that I cultivated from personal stories, some from just other stories in just wanting to make a good song.

Big Sean

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

Ann Beattie

Since that day there is nothing anyone could ever say to convince me that one person cannot change a nation. One person can do unbelievable things. All it takes is that one person who's willing to risk everything to make it happen.

Another Man's War: The True Story of One Man's Battle to Save Children in the Sudan

I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.

Dave Barry

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is just a little bit extra.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Extraordinary Teens: Personal Stories and Advice from Today's Most Inspiring Youth

...but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry