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I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view.

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.

A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.

I'm not angry. As an athlete ... you should be open to criticism, and you're allowed to be criticized, because not everybody has the same opinion, not everybody likes the same players. The rankings are quite volatile: Today you're 'great,' tomorrow you're 'not,' but then you're 'great' again. It makes for great stories. Now, I always look at the long term and by doing that, obviously, I can stay calm through the storm.

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.

Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'

We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own. If you don't like what somebody says, say what it is you don't like.

I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well.

And I really have done everything that I said I did do. The rest is just a story that somebody else made up.

In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.

I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way.

But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.

Stories and cigarettes ruined lives of lesser girls.

Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.

The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.