About yourself Quote by Keri Russell

“I needed a job. Now. I felt certain that at some point I was going to have to apply for seasonal help at a…

— Erin Lyon

“my story really can change lives”

— Sylvia Hurt

“This is the whistle-stop memoir of how a lower-middle-class girl from the north of England one day changed the way she lived her life…

— Tillie Cole

“If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's.”

— Terry Pratchett

I just thought that Adrienne [Shelly] wrote a great character [for Waitress]. It really was all on the page.

— Keri Russell

“The stories made me somehow feel better and made me feel that my own life wasn’t out of control.”

— Anni Taylor

“Carol, a swing-shift cocktail waitress in the Bird of Paradise's show lounge had gotten home (guesswork, here) around 2:15 - 2:30, poured herself a…

— Jeff Rice

Really, I think among the many mistakes I've made over my life, one of them was caring so much about the short story.

— Charles D'Ambrosio

“in the story no one smiles,no lesson is learned. the narrator can not change any one's heart the story is agate to another story,which…

— Laura Apol

“You think it's so easy to change yourself. You think it's so easy, but it's not True, things don't stay the same forever: couches…

— Leila Sales

It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life. ... She wants to be the kind of person…

— Emily Giffin

“Now the purpose of her stories had changed. She spun them to discover their meaning. In the telling, she found, you reached a point…

— Ursula Hegi