Quotes About Experience

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

Bad choices make good stories.

Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still so many more books to read. I'm a work in progress.

Given a little time for the pain to subside, dreadful experiences often can be the basis of funny jokes or stories.

True stories are way more interesting.

I want to find stories that humanize homosexual experience and that's what Peter Gill does well.

Love stories should be relatable.

I believe that every life is a collection of individual 'journey stories.'

When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

People want real-life stories.

Stories are emotional journey where we can project ourselves emotionally in another space.

You learn a lot more from stories about getting rejected than stories about becoming happy.

What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude.

I would like to see more female stories out there, particularly older female stories.

I grew up with the Gene Kelly look at war. The cheerful kind of stories you tell about a horrendous war.

I have great stories. I am going to write a book.

I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them.

I love adventure stories.

People that I'm most attracted to, they're not living by any sort of rules. They're the kind of people with stories to tell.

The pain that all people experience in life and the light that helps them champion through it all - it's their lives and their stories and their love and will to keep living that moves me to write.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

Live shows are pretty much like the center of the storm... where the power comes from, the most raw experience. That's the juice. That's where we hit the hardest.

My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all.