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We compose our life in stories we tell ourselves — John Geddes

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories. — Taylor Swift

There is only the actuality of what happens in life. The rest is just a story, no matter who's telling it. — Gary Crowley

The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself. — Robert McKee

The stories and pictures I make for the lives of the people closest to me are the forms of my empathy. — Siri Hustvedt

And as a writer now, I want to save Linda's life. Not her body
her life. — Tim O'Brien

Let the best stories you tell be of your own life. — Rebecca Donovan

By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life. — Jonathan Lethem

I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life. — Stephen Daldry

Life tells you many stories... but allows you to write your own.
Its your job to make it good"
Victor Ghoshe — Victor Ghoshe

When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story — Tushar Upreti

To me, Gospel music is really any music that's a testimony and tells a story of what God has done in your life. — Laura Allen

You can't go wrong with major life and death stories when it comes to a competition, so I thought I'd have a go at writing one. — Michael Winter

I thought I could do that by telling stories of some of the cases that established those principles on a real life on the ground basis. — Floyd Abrams

In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine. — Kurt Vonnegut

All stories are love stories. — Robert McLiam Wilson

I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life. — Morris Gleitzman

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open. — Muriel Rukeyser

Heaven isn't a place, it's a state of consciousness.
- 595Harold Klemp Stories to Help You See God in Your Life, ECK Parables, Book 4, page 367 — Harold Klemp

Growing up, I used to climb out my window onto the roof and look up at the stars. There, in the quiet, I would write stories inside my head. — Christy Hall

That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop. — Marilyn Monroe

Change your story, change your life. Basically, that's what it is. — Deepak Chopra

Happiness is never an accident. It is the prize we get when we choose wisely from life's stories — Joseph Dunn

In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story. — Katherine Center

I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I've done it my whole life. — Cody Horn

Life must be so boring without the delight that comes from fictional stories. — Blaire Hammond

The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read. — Shannon L. Alder

There is only Love
and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream. — Vera Nazarian

Each Fable is inspired by some true stories which doesn't have an happy ending, unlike the Fable. — Neetesh Dixit

Life will go on as long as there is someone to sing, to dance, to tell stories and to listen. — Oren Lyons

Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do. — Colum McCann

You can't regret a whole period in your life ... It's part of who you are, one of your stories. — Laura Fraser

It's okay how some stories leave off without an ending. Life doesn't always deliver the one you would expect. — Adam Silvera

Bedtime stories were definitely a big part of my life because I was just so excited my father was talking to me. — Adam Sandler

There was a story etched in each wrinkle on his forehead-the stories any long life can amass but that only a lonely life locks forever. — Ashay Abbhi

We understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand. — Paulo Coelho

Life is full of stories. Some are true, some aren't, but all of them are real. — D.H. Sayers

In a way, our stories have the same beginning and ending -- we all are born, and we all die. What happens in the middle sets us apart. — Shon Mehta

The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations. — Brian Pinkerton

And then they bid their final goodbye which marked the end of their story. And beginning of two new stories. — Crestless Wave

Why do bad things happen to good people?'
'Because it makes a good story. — Andrew Kaufman

Stories are one of the greatest gifts we can give to our children. Stories are equipment for life. — Matthew Knisely

I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story. — Regina Spektor

The best stories are often true ... The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries. — Shonda Rhimes

Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His. — Francis Chan

The only man she ever loved. And hated. — Mary Papas

The story I have told throughout my work life I could not have told as well without Clarence. — Bruce Springsteen

Perhaps any life is such: different stories like different strands, each distinct in itself, each true, yet wound together to form one rope, one life. — Lee Smith

I've got a head full of stories you still need to hear, starting with my ribs, ending with my whole life. — Bonnie Jo Campbell

That woman must have been a husky in a previous life. — Mary Papas

... my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me ... "
"I've never much cared for horror stories. — Anthony Horowitz

The stories you believe to be true are the ones your life will become. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity. — Elena Ferrante

Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life. — F. Sionil Jose

And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into. — Philip Roth

Every life has a love story, even though the beloved may be imaginary, or a cat. — Mason Cooley

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life. — Ray Bradbury

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told. — Colum McCann

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am. — Paul Auster

There is a big difference between storytelling and being alive. Those are the two things that I prefer in life - telling stories and being alive. — Jaco Van Dormael

Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance. — Gerald Vizenor

The flower doth not worry, and the tree doth not waver. — A.D. Posey

I'm sorry to burden you,' she said. She felt like a crybaby.
'What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them? — Sena Jeter Naslund

Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them. — Randy Pausch

I love writing stories about regular people dealing with life's biggest questions. — Nick Blaemire

Life usually tells the best stories - but sometimes it takes an artist to show us what they mean. — Terry Teachout

Without writers, stories would not be written,
Without actors, stories could not be brought to life. — Angie-Marie Delsante

I believe that every life is a collection of individual 'journey stories.' — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in the story. — Stephen King

Good luck in a way is bad luck not occurring, but the world wants stories of how bad luck happened, and how good luck played a savior. — Daya Kudari

Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do. — Cameron Conaway

In some mystical way, Lenny seemed to ennoble work more than anyone I had ever met"
Also in "Stories and Scripts:an Anthology — Zack Love

Everyone's got a different story. — Emma Donoghue

No story is ever the whole story. — Marty Rubin

The written word is greatest sacred documentation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth ... as my life consists of nothing but those experiments. — Mahatma Gandhi

All those stories need different endings - which is possible because it's my life and I do have the privelege of being able to write the story. — Laura Fraser

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story. — Evangeline Lilly

As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't lack for creativity. — Richelle E. Goodrich

The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted upon. — Steve Maraboli

I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster. — Mohsin Hamid

The gift of knowledge is empowering, but the gift of wisdom is life-changing. — A.D. Posey

It is never, never too late, in a story or in real life, to correct. — Nancy Thayer

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father. — Salman Rushdie

stories make life so much better. — Michael Chabon

I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again. — Oscar Levant

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time. — Leo Buscaglia

Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories. — Ruth Ozeki

The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do. — PJ Harvey

If you don't think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul. — A.D. Posey

I agree strongly that no story is more valuable than someone's life. — Hark-Joon Lee

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death. — Orlando Bloom

I've seen 'Fried Green Tomatoes' too many times. I love life stories told in flashback. — Liam James

Literature, the act of writing, affirms life, however dark the story it tells. — Marty Rubin

It will be worth it if I am remembered, if not flatteringly, then at least with some small amount of accuracy. — Patrick Rothfuss

Someone once told me that the most dynamic actors are people who have stories. People who have lived life. People with experiences. — Emmanuelle Chriqui

It is the gift of stories that most repays life among settled people. — Robert Michael Pyle

The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug. — Cathy Guisewite

Crying cleanses the soul. — A.D. Posey

Learning is essential for living the life you love. — A.D. Posey