Quote by Kathryn Stockett

“I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe. And one day while you were doing that, you felt something…

— Stephen King

“Your story isn’t over as long as you have breath in your lungs. What will your story say?”

— Nate Green

“I felt a hard knot untangle in my chest. It was a relief, a worry that I had not known I had, dissolving like…

— D.C. Lozar

“I felt I hadn't breathed since early morning, that my heart had not beat-and only now for the first time I took a breath,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“I feel like there is a bubble in my chest that expands more by the second, threatening to break me apart from the inside.”

— Veronica Roth

“Every time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.”

— Alice Sebold

“I wanted to say a lot but wasn't sure where to start; people don't want to hear about how your heart has melted into…

— Dee Williams

“Let me tell you a story. I tell stories to prove I was meant to survive, knowing it is not true.”

— Dorothy Allison

“Just wanted to let you know I got in all right. And also that my chest hurts as if I MAY BE DYING, because…

— Hannah Moskowitz

“I'm dying. I am dying. I have finally achieved what I set out to do. My heart is splitting open and I breathe in…

— Courtney Summers

“It's hard to breathe, and I close my eyes. There's a hard lump of air in my chest, like I've swallowed a raincloud whole.”

— Haruki Murakami

“...stories want to be told. Stories have a power of their own ... you can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it…

— Angelica Banks