Quotes of: Personal-story Keyword

I will contend until I am shot that art as soon as it is brought into contact with politics inevitably sinks to the level of any ideological trash.

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

I’m afraid of fear, men named Raef, and palindromes.

A Story That Talks about Talking Is Like Chatter to Chattering Teeth, and Every Set of Dentures Can Attest to the Fact That No..

Once upon a time, a king came to earth to tell stories, and the stories contained the mystery of eternal life.

The Storytelling God: Seeing the Glory of Jesus in His Parables

Come morning, his memory would be of a night spent watching over them all. And each of them - dog and boy, mother and old man - would feel the same.

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.

The Story of the Treasure Seekers

Well, I myself, while sometimes unkempt by nights of drunkenness and debauchery, am quite convinced a man’s good character is marked by his impeccable attire.

Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites

[...] what's the use of lying down to die as long as we can stand up and walk.

Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival

We learned the shocking truth that "home" isn't necessarily a certain spot on earth. It must be a place where you can "feel" at home, which means "free" to us.

The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

It was one of the many rules in the kennel, rules that didn't always make sense, or even seem important, until some situation drew the lesson out.

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

It's not MAN who is the scourge of the world, it's a single culture. One culture out of hundreds of thousands of cultures. Our culture.

The Story of B: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

This isn't about keeping mountains looking pretty. Ending mountaintop removal is about keeping humanity alive.

Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -

The woman looked out at the madness of the world and dared to hope. Her eyes were burning coals of stars.

Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -

It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm.

See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism

Geography and mileage mean nothing. Separate is a single word that covers all distances that aren't together.

Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -

Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time.

Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.

The Story of Mary Maclane & Other Writings

Mudit was smoking for me I wasn’t ready to give up. Arjun was the Alcohol Anonymous, I wasn’t even ready to enroll; someone had to make me forcefully join it

SHE- Stories of Modern Indian Women

Mapmaker mapmaker make me a map one to one scale, without a single gap. Map every rock, every thought, every tree and erase all the territory.

The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 2

Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we bought books.

Papa Is a Poet: A Story About Robert Frost

Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.

Postscript to the Name of the Rose