Quotes of: Success-stories Keyword

When a zashiki warashi came to live with you, good fortune smiled upon the whole house.

Tomo: Friendship through Fiction: An Anthology of Japan Teen Stories

Many great ideas, great love stories, and great achievements are born from a healthy irrationality.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide : Five Complete Novels and One Story

Now that I've let go of my story, I can let go of my life.

Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary

The kiss wove between gentle and frenzied, liquid and greedy, silken and primal, and he sucked every second of bliss he could from the forbidden pleasure.

Unintended Guardian: A Mythos Legacy Short Story

I'm prone to tangential digressions, but I've never regretted being remarkably inconsistent:it's led me to fascinating people and interesting stories.

Unquenchable: A Tipsy Quest for the World's Best Bargain Wines

What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I've made.

Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story

Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments of turning.

Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

It is completely raw, the sort of thing I feel free to do with the door shut—it’s the story undressed, standing up in nothing but its socks and undershorts.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

The inner story, though the same in essence for all, is always single and unique in each human being, never before lived and never to be repeated.

The Way of Woman: Awakening the Perennial Feminine

He has never told anyone this story. He doesn't mind talking to Richard, to Rafe about his past--within reason--but he doesn't mean to give away pieces of himself.

Wolf Hall

Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.

Women

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

All stories told have been told before. We tell them to ourselves, as did all men who ever were. And all men who ever will be. The only things new are the names.

Words of Radiance

For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us out.

On Writing

Embrace all emotions: sadness, happiness, sorrow, hate, love, prejudice, fear; they are weapons against our greatest enemy: indifference.

Wanderlust and the Whiskey Bottle Parallel: Poems and Stories

We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up.

Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

After the first couple weeks, when all your sex toys had met all my sex toys, ...

What Do Lesbians Do in Bed?: 21 Sapphic Stories

Because any guilt the size of a speck of dust, or shame, can crush even the best of men, in mountains of weight

White Wedding Lies, and Discontent: An American Love Story

Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.

Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories