Quotes of: Personal-story Keyword

Smoke rose from the barrel of the gun like a serpent crawling up from its wicker basket

Family Man - A Short Story of Murder

Had a big trial. It was like an Errol Flynn movie.

Fighting the Devil: A True Story of Consuming Passion, Deadly Poison, and Murder

Matthew Arnold made the horrible prophecy that literature would increasingly replace religion.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

Through meditation we come to know that we are dying & being reborn in every moment.

A Heart as Wide as the World: Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness

We can discover the capacity of the mind to be aware, to love, to begin again

A Heart as Wide as the World: Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness

I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working magic.'

Rick Bragg

I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was totally enthralled.

Reba McEntire

Because of all the concurrent stories going in 24 and its fast pace, it can be complicated in terms of the story, so I thought sound could help with the storytelling.

Stephen Hopkins

Basically, all novelists should want to tell a story, and if they don't want to, they shouldn't be novelists. I think story-telling is important and underrated.

Susan Howatch

Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories.

Steven Levitt

I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.

Sam Mendes

If the right idea comes up, and it feels true to talk about somebody being in a truck, and that's the only way to tell the story, then I will reluctantly tell the story that way.

Shane McAnally

Remember: It’s all in your head… all of it. If you don’t like the story, change it. If the people around don’t accept your new story; change them.

Steve Maraboli

The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.

Samantha Power

I believe that everyone has a story to tell. The problem that is inherent to most aspiring authors is that they struggle with getting the story from their head to the page.

Steve C. Roberts

I wouldn't do a project if it weren't a story I wanted to tell. That's rewarding in itself, as a writer, if you're working on a story that you enjoy telling.

Stephen Schwartz

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

Tom T. Hall

Obituaries were among my favorite to write because they have elements no other news stories have - a story from start to finish with a proper conclusion.

Tom Rachman

Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.

Tabitha Soren

Whatever I experienced in the world that I didn't understand I'd invent a story and workout my understanding of something through the story.

Lisa Alther

I don't shy from controversy. I'm telling stories, and I'll tell whatever story seems like it wants to be told.

Lauren Myracle