Quotes by Stories People who read are people who dream, and we connect through the stories we live and tell and read. Amy Poehler stories dream people We [with Les Charles] started talking about hotel stories, and we found that a lot of the action was happening in the hotel bar. We actually thought of that while we were in a bar: "Why would anyone ever leave here?" Amy Poehler bars stories talking If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? Amy Purdy stories life book You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts. Amy Purdy most-amazing share stories Usually in stories there are big problems in the beginning or couples are pulling away, there's a lot of bitterness. Amy Ryan pulling-away couple stories The truth is, whoever I've dated, if I've ever wanted to talk about them on stage, I've asked them first, and I've gotten their permission to tell a story or talk about them before I do it. Amy Schumer truth-is stories firsts My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market. Amy Sedaris fleas favorites-things stories Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic school. Amy Sedaris catholic stories school I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's going to get edited. I think that comes from being in a large family, so you have to get your story in really quick or someone cuts you off. Amy Sedaris cutting stories thinking You have to live your story before being able to write your story. Amy Shearn able stories writing I like any story that starts one place and really takes a huge journey to a whole new place; that people in their life want to take that journey. They want to be able to find things in their life that aren't working and work through them to a new place of change. Amy Smart journey stories people Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone. Amy Tan stories writing giving I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private. Amy Tan stories writing art I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic. Amy Tan gothic stories kids I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song. Amy Winehouse white stories song Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved. Anais Nin enchantment suffering stories The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles. Anatole Broyard being-human epic stories We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book. Anatole France devil stories book Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself Anderson Cooper honest stories way Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing. Anderson Cooper crush stories children «910111213141516171819»