#tori

I was raised with a huge Armenian influence, always hearing stories of Armenia, celebrating Armenian holidays. ↗

— Kim Kardashian

#armenia #armenian #celebrating #hearing #holidays

I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space. ↗

— Donald Miller

#community #donald-miller #inspirational #stories #family

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#mark #mind #second-rate #stories #telling

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#applied #background #cannot #cultural #culture

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. ↗

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#bloom #burst #go #happen #hope

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#actually #autobiographical #confused #get #i

I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#everyone #fascinates #films #genuinely #groups

Somewhere along the line, I realized that I liked telling stories, and I decided that I would try writing. Ten years later, I finally got a book published. It was hard. I had no skills. I knew nothing about the business of getting published. So I had to keep working at it. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#along #book #business #decided #finally

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#better #book #college #complete #days

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#dead #dream #drop #eyes #factories