Quotes of: Success-stories Keyword

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

The Story of My Life

My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.

Raymond Carver

There are definitely some stories worth telling and I think there's something to be said for telling your story.

Susanna Hoffs

I am content when writing short stories.

Sarah Mazucci

All sorrows can be born if you put them in a story or tell a story about them.

Karen Blixen

A story is open-ended. A story invites you into it to make your own meaning.

Katherine Paterson

people are not separate from their stories .people and living by any style gives birth of stories

lity munshi

And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.

Roger Mudd

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.

Robert Sheckley

But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.

Errol Morris

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.

Kevin Smith

'Social Network' is a good story with human experience connective tissue that makes it ageless.

Michael De Luca

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

Sean Lennon

The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business.

Leslie Moonves

To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories.

Sarah Kay

Listen to other people tell their story, but don't believe them. You know that it's just a story that is only true for them, but listen because the communication can be wonderful.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

There is a natural progression to 'Lost,' and as the story goes forward, it's going to change. It's not a static story. The franchise of 'Lost' is not characters sitting on a beach.

Carlton Cuse

I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot of great stories hinge on people being wrong.

Ira Glass

I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.

Jill Abramson

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

John Updike

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

Lynn Abbey