“Works that have a certain imperfection to them have an appeal for that very reason—or at least they appeal to certain types of people . . . You discover something about that work that tugs at your heart—or maybe we should say the work discovers you.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence. The story is our escort; without it, we are blind. Does the blind man own his escort? No, neither do we the story; rather, it is the story that owns us.”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“That’s the story of my life, honey. They want to suck the comedy out of me and then they want to detach.”— Kathy Griffin, theguardian.com
“At these meetings, which were about the year 1655, divers experiments were suggested, discoursed, and tried with various successes, though no other account was taken of them but what particular persons perhaps did for the help of their own memories; so that many excellent things have been lost.”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.”— Phil Knight, addicted2success.com
“'Transparency' isn't releasing just one side's memo. At the very least, if you really want 'transparency' you release both.”— Sally Kohn, twitter.com
“There are four directions: North, South, East, and West. We are going in the fifth direction, which is the direction of stories.”— Sean Taylor, inspiringquotes.us
“The Revelations is an amazing, rich material that is full of stories about angels and angels being sent down to Earth to wipe out a third of the population. There are angels that come down and wipe out a third of the population and then another angel will come down and wipe out a third of all the an…”— Misha Collins, inspiringquotes.us
“I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act. Over the years, a lot of organizations have asked me to b…”— Willie Mays, amazon.com
“Even if they like it, people will remember the plot twist, the worldbuilding, the gimmick only until they find the next one. But they’ll never, ever forget a character they like.”— Sam Sykes, twitter.com
“Any story that’s driven by characters will always be met with some discomfort or ire. Characters are emotions and emotions are things we simultaneously crave and would rather not deal with.”— Sam Sykes, twitter.com
“I see that God is able to use my story to help others. Once a girl came up and told me that she had had cancer. When she learned my story it made her realize that she didn't need to give up.”— Bethany Hamilton, surfertoday.com
“The author describes how impressed she was with the detailed storyboards that outlined her movie – "not just sketches, but real art". She then describes a Hawaiian sunset as, "God painting His storyboard on the sky".”— Bethany Hamilton, amazon.com
“But good ol'Uncle James, he had a heart. He talked her into it. It was Uncle James who told me about the night I was born. Driving Dorothy to the hospital, his raggedy old car didn't have any brakes. He had to ride around and around in circles until the car slowed down. Hey, that could be the story…”— Etta James, amazon.com
“From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.”— Adam Savage, menshealth.com