Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The material dictates the approach. I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them. Certainly the last thing… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age,… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
I just make what I like - warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
I dream of a world where people from different backgrounds are praying and working for the flourishment of communities different from them,… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
The thing I was beginning to figure out about Sam and Grace, the thing about Sam not being able to function without… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I'll have spent most of the day before the match doing some preparation. That's a little bit like studying for your exams.… — Jill Douglas Copy Share Image
The bus roared through Indiana cornfields that night; the moon illuminated the ghostly gathered husks; it was almost Halloween. I made the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
The beauty of Billie Holiday is that she gave every singer after her the license to interpret and perform music in ways… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
In the spiritual lore of India there is a story that the Lord whispered only one word in our ears when he… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
My dad has a great expression. He always says, 'Tell me a fact and I'll learn, tell me the truth and I… — Steve Sabol Copy Share Image
Literature is always something - it is either story or poetry, ideally both. That is, you always know what it is and… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The regional tags are often pejorative and dismissive. Don't think of place-bound stories, in other words, but of stories with a strong… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
It's a rare memoir that can tell a story that seems brand new, but Nina Here Nor There does it. This one-of-a-kind… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each… — Hermann Hankel Copy Share Image
“I had seen the world as either white or black. It is only when I read the pages of her diary that… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
To the question: How do the authors of sketches, stories and novels get along in life, the following answer can or must… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
Honestly, the essence of publishing hasn't changed. Since the days of the cave man carving stuff on the cave walls, people have… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
“Where do your stories come from?" He asked. "I capture them in a wicker basket as they flutter from the night sky,"… — Chad B Hanson Copy Share Image
The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were… — Christine Quinn Copy Share Image
I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time… — Desmond Dekker Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump] is saying that these stories of A-listers turning him down, "We're not asking 'em. I want the people at my… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It is my belief that all gods are stories, or at least the ideas behind stories, but stories or ideas that have… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“All good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better… — Camron Wright Copy Share Image
“Writers are liars, my dear, surely you know that by now? And yet, things need not have happened to be true. Tales… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I'd love to be able to play all different roles, whether it's Maureen in Rent or Maria in West Side Story. I… — Lea Michele Copy Share Image
When you tell a story in the kitchen to a friend, it's full of mistakes and repetitions. It's good to avoid that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
But I live an interesting life and I can tell a pretty good story and it has helped my career. But the… — Artie Lange Copy Share Image
That's how I work, whether with stories or novels - they start with an image that comes to me in a daydream,… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
"The Cursed Wheel," which Declan [Shalvey] is starting here, is the one constant. It's a story in the backups that will go… — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without… — Boris Becker Copy Share Image
The Buddhists have a story about blind men trying to describe an elephant by feeling it's various parts, and each describes the… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
From the first time you laughed with me, all those months, and all those stories,” Joe said quietly. “They were all you,… — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
When you're a screenwriter, it's like being a mechanic. You open the hood of the story, the director is the driver, and… — Thomas Bidegain Copy Share Image