Quotes of: Success-stories Keyword

The literary man re-reads, other men simply read.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.

A Heart as Wide as the World: Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness

I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

Rita Dove

I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.

Rachel Griffiths

I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.

Steven Spielberg

If somebody is in a story, they need to be there for a reason, and not just to set up somebody else's story.

Joss Whedon

I know how to tell a story to a thousand people. Sometimes I don't know how to tell a story to a piece of tape on a wall and a camera.

Katie Finneran

With Digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.

Kevin Rose

For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.

Lynn Abbey

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

Lupe Fiasco

But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story.

Megan Fox

Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell.

M. Kirin

I'm always drawn to stories that people don't know about, particularly when they're inside of a story that everyone knows about.

Robert Redford

I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.

Michael Welch

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

Nat King Cole

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

Nikolai Gogol

The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.

Natsuo Kirino

From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.

Bill Condon

At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.

Joyce Maynard

A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

Annie Besant

There are fewer established rules in the way you tell a story for commercials than in features. It's a great little short story you get to play with.

Alfonso Cuaron