Quotes of: Personal-story Keyword

If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the protagonist is transformed. He's a jerk at the beginn...

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.

Kaskade

Every person has a great story to write.

Amae Dechavez

I always had plenty of ideas. I didn’t exactly have them. They grew—little by little, a half an idea at a time. First, part of a phrase and then a person to go with it. After a person, then a little corner of a place for the person to be in.

Report to the Men's Club and Other Stories

In the Ottoman times, there were itinerant storytellers called "meddah. " They would go to coffee houses, where they would tell a story in front of an audience, often improvising. With each new person in the story, the meddah would change his voice, ...

Elif Shafak

In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.

Marilyn Manson

Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.

Samantha Bond

You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done well, that is just as engaging as the end of the world. A million people dying - we can't process. One person, we can process.

Patrick Rothfuss

Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables.

Dean Karnazes

Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there is a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions... on whether you knew the story of how others befo...

Ceremony

One could even argue that we have a duty to create and pass on stories about choice because once a person knows such stories, they can’t be taken away from him. He may lose his possessions, his home, his loved ones, but if he holds on to a story ab...

The Art of Choosing

The world's most sensible and the most idiotic person lies within us.. the worst part is we can't say who is who

2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up

Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.

Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

No one's life made sense on paper. You cannot condense a person into facts.

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

You have a responsibility to act for others when you're the only person in a position to do so. It's how you handle it that separates the great from the mediocre.

In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance

He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he basked in his own existence and found it splendid.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but ...

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the ...

Fulton Oursler

Choosing the narrator for a first-person story like 'Downriver' is a crucial decision because the voice has to be one the reader wants to listen to, and the voice has to be a match for the emotion you want the story to carry.

Will Hobbs

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

William Throsby Bridges