Quotes of: Personal-story Keyword

Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.

MI VIDA: A Story of Faith, Hope and Love

...do you actually think that how long a person grieves is a measure of how much they loved someone?

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

It's funny how a person can be right all the time and still be wrong.

Sideways Stories from Wayside School

Stories in themselves are not automatically good; it has to be the right kind of story told by the right kind of person.

What I Learned in Narnia

We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up wit...

The Graveyard Book

Keep in mind, we are past the age of enlightenment. This is past reason. We are pretty deep into modern history and the decline of religion. This is when nature itself has been stripped bare of its cozy personality and we all feel homeless in our nat...

Some Sexual Success Stories: Plus Other Stories in Which God Might Choose to Appear

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?

Lara Flynn Boyle

First person allows deeper insight into the protagonist's character. It allows the reader to identify more fully with the protagonist and to share her world quite intimately. So it suits a story focused on one character's personal journey. However, f...

Juliet Marillier

Your life should be a story you are excited to tell.

The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change

For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.

Taylor Swift

All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extensi...

Raina Telgemeier

The lesson learned: never take your loved ones for granted. And if you're ever lucky enough to find that one person in life who makes you love more than any other person could possible make you love, you treat every day together as if it were your la...

Sand Dollar: A Story of Undying Love

Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patie...

The Story of a Marriage

If a story is not about the hearer he [or she] will not listen . . . A great lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting--only the deeply personal and familiar.

East of Eden

Forgiving doesn't make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better.

2 States: The Story of My Marriage

When you have a steady and lifelong group of girlfriends, chances are the person you're telling the story to is actually part of the story.

I Was Told There'd Be Cake

When a photo of a person looks deep into your spirit and tells you thousand stories….. Stories from your past even before you existed, then the photo is way above any description.

Sameh Elsayed

At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it.

Jeffrey Eugenides

The Olympics is not really about the sport, it's about the story behind the person. You keep the sport relatively simple to understand - let the fans understand that a takedown is 1 point, a turn is 2, a pin and the match is over. Keep it simple, and...

Kurt Angle

Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'

Bill Cosby

'A Christmas Story' has always meant a lot to me personally.

Peter Billingsley