Equipment Quote by Kenneth Burke

Stories are one of the greatest gifts we can give to our children. Stories are equipment for life.

— Matthew Knisely

I had sort of had a 21st birthday when I was 17, 18 years old living in Japan. I had all of that stuff…

— Sarah Wright

I never try to give a message in my books. It's about living with characters long enough to hear their voices and let them…

— Isabel Allende

Maybe it's not about the happy endings. Maybe it's about the story.

— Anonymous

With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an…

— Madonna Ciccone

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

— Tim Vine

But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the…

— Terry Pratchett

“You couldn't ever really fix a sad story. You could only make another. And another. And another, until you found the right one at…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Because here's the thing about a book: when you pick up a story, you put down your own.

— Holly Smale

If you look back at my story, it doesn’t matter where you look, but God’s fingerprints are all over the place.

— Jeremy Lin

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.

— Joyce Maynard

It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.

— Salman Rushdie