Quotes of: Story Keyword

Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can. I tell the songwriter's story. When I read people's lyrics, I'm so amazed. I want to tell this story and make it part of my life. I usually can't write lyrics down, but...

Sharon Jones

I've always been into 'fast-paced, don't bore 'em, keep it moving along, stick with the story.' You know: tell a story the way I want to hear a story. I find it more rewarding to write for kids, but I also find it a little easier, because you can jus...

James Patterson

Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and adventure stories about men in which the men were winners, to writing adventure stories about a woman in which the...

Joanna Russ

Stories are like DNA, they shape the culture that they’re a part of. A society is not a society without its own unique stories. But we allow machines to make our stories, nowadays, or at least to tell them. We allow things to shape our understandin...

James Rozoff

I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up to my own terror and pain and reexamining it, re-c...

Dorothy Allison

Your friends, and your associates, and the people around you, and the environment that you live in, and the speakers around you - the speakers around you - and the communicators around you, are the poetry makers. If your mother tells you stories, she...

Love

Adoption is a beautiful, burdensome blessing.

The Eye of Adoption: The True Story of My Turbulent Wait for a Baby

Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated.

Emerging with Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain, and the Love That Heals

She's a sailboat and I'm an anchor, pulling us both down.

Four: A Divergent Story Collection

My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.

Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings

To now is to love, to see is a joy, but to lose is hurtful.

Bam Bam's Story: A Celebrated Life

Quiet is here and all in me. ("Dress of White Silk")

Collected Stories, Vol. 1

It is only human to be kind to others.

The City Heroes and Other Stories from the Heart of Africa

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

Neil Gaiman

The word “future” and females is a dangerous combination.

2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Physical attractiveness is no indicator of an individual's beauty." from "The Beauty of Ugh

I am not Frazzle!: And other stories for grown-ups

Would you believe in a story without the heroes? There are stories without heroes.

Just the Way I Feel

Worry wasn’t an emotion to which he was particularly accustomed—and it worried him.

Snooze: A Story of Awakening

I should think a dead language would be rather boring, socially speaking.

Snooze: A Story of Awakening

Well, enough of this introspection. It’s depressing, quite frankly.

Snooze: A Story of Awakening