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Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art. — Yayoi Kusama

Life has no guarantees, but my life has no meaning if you're not in it. — Robin Bielman

I try not to think too much about where my voice comes from. I'm channeling characters and emotion to come up with beautiful words that tell a story. — Gin Wigmore

The only failure is not knowing how to be happy.
My Story — Celine Dion

I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story. — Zoey Deutch

People call me a 'model-actress,' when I just never started with that ... it's not my story. — Astrid Berges-Frisbey

I'm not trying as a writer to be smart or to understand the inner workings of my narrator, I'm trying to survive the typing of this story. — Ron Carlson

This is not my story.
-The Penitent God — S.G. Night

I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments. — P.G. Wodehouse

Suddenly angry, I cut off my bleak thoughts. No. I would not accept that. This was my story( ... ) — Julie Kagawa

I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy. — Gabby Douglas

When I think of Tokyo Story, yeah, it is like a novella. That doesn't mean it's not great. Some of my favorite Tolstoy works are his novellas. — Paul Auster

I'm not an artist. I set the camera up and tell my story. — Tyler Perry

Like it or not... that's my story and I can't do that or that each action by itself is a limitation. — Deyth Banger

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain. — Laura Riding

I suppose I'm in that very small group of people who are not waiting for their own story to unfold. If my life was a film, I'd have walked out by now. — Carol Rifka Brunt

It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then. — C.S. Lewis

But I'd better not go to fast in my story, for all things want their order, and no matter how early one gets up, dawn doesn't come any sooner. — Camilo Jose Cela Conde

Hearken to my story. Listen but do not pity me. For pity is intended for the weak and I am still strong in my affliction. — Kahlil Gibran

In fact, after a while it was the machines I was looking at, not my father at all. They had become him. They were telling me his story. Which — Daniel Wallace

I tell my story, not because it is unique, but because it is not. It is the story of many girls. — Malala Yousafzai

The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table. — Mick Jagger

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy. — Manuel Puig

Don't judge me. You do not know my story. — Michelle Frost

story telling is not a career, it's a calling. I've been writing true and compelling news my entire professional life. My novels are packs of lies — Glen Carter

My developing sense was that the foundation of a story is an emotional foundation. If a story does not work emotionally, it does not work at all. — Yann Martel

It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing. — Elmore Leonard

I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story - I will. — Amy Schumer

I am not protecting myself or preaching you my story, Reasons will be many but life will move on even in painful journey. — Santosh Kalwar

What's bothering me is you always seem ready to snap my head off my shoulders and I'm not comfortable with that. — Justine Dell

I may not have written the song, but I could add my story to it. Everyone out there could. That was what made music so powerful. — Tara Kelly

My job is to put words together and tell a story. If that doesn't work for you, it's not a war crime. — Alan Zweibel

It's fiction, the improbable is very probable in my worlds — H.Q. Frost

That's not me.That's my duality! — Munia Khan

I do think novels are overlooked. I did write one some years ago that I think is quite good, called 'The End of the Story,' not to blow my own horn. — Lydia Davis

This is not a story about your disappointment at my silence. The theme of this story is my pain and my attempts to end it. — Don DeLillo

I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise. — Sarah Paulson

I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story. — Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Do not judge my story by the chapter you walked in on. — Unknown

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world. — Wynonna Judd

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing. — Kendrick Lamar

I am a passionate, not an intellectual writer, which means my characters must plunge ahead of me to live the story — Ray Bradbury

Don't judge me. You know my name, but not my story. — Demi Lovato

It's a good thing you're not my Story Weaver. You're easily distracted by the pattern of the cloth and can't see the quality of the threads." "Well — Maria V. Snyder

You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

I tell my story, not because its unique, but because its not, it is the story of many girls — Malala Yousafzai

Activist: not as much acting as it is reacting- which is my story — Candace Gingrich-Jones

My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story. — Carl Hiaasen

In my story I do not deal in Absolute Evil. I do not think there is such a thing, since that is Zero. - The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, no. 183 — John C. Wright

This was not chance that they met twice, my mother would tell me whenever she recounted this story. It was fate. — Amy Tan

I write the story as it comes to me - YA is my natural voice, not a conscious choice. — Marie Lu

I enjoy being out with the fans, I enjoy talking baseball, but to get up and tell my life story ... I'm not comfortable doing that. — Bruce Sutter

When I begin a story at my desk, the window to my back, the path is not there. As I start to walk, I make the path. — Paula Fox

But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story. — Megan Fox

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly. — Anita Desai

I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age. — Ed Bradley

To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps. — Queen Latifah

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

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

Come on Princess," he sighs, as he scoops me up off the sand and carries me to my room. "I'm not going to be able to sleep, unless I know you're safe. — Jillian Dodd

We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That's not just my story. That's your story. That's our story. — Marco Rubio

A bedroom is not necessary for me to demonstrate my womanliness! — Sidney St. James

If sacrifice is not the theme of my life, there's no sense telling the story. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story. — Joan Didion

Author's Note: This story starts with section 6. This is not a mistake. I have my own subtle reasoning. So, just read, and enjoy. — Isaac Asimov

All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing. — Karen Lord

All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story. — Gerard Way

I'm not athletic and have no desire to work out, so I watch what I eat. Correction: I eat what I want and feel guilty about it later. — Megan Miranda

That is not just the story of Israel. It's the story of humanity. It's the story of my life and your life. — John Piper

I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I said all along I would not sell my story. I don't think it would be right. — Louise Woodward

Love covers all shortcomings and failures, overlooks one's mistakes and does not bring to mind one's past mistakes - My Last Letter, Chapter 1 — Santosh Avvannavar

Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace and love about my work. — Colleen Atwood

This is my story. These things are my past, and I will not allow them to be washed away. I will find a way to have them back. — Lauren DeStefano

For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story. — Sonia Rykiel

I have no anonymity.I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there. — Ringo Starr

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis. — Anish Kapoor

For the first time in my whole damn life I can look into a girls eyes and find her looking right back at me. Not passed me. Not around me. Into me. — Marilyn Grey

I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other. — Malala Yousafzai

I've always been open about my life not because my story is unique, but because it isn't. — Wendy Davis

I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it. — Dolly Parton

I feel safe with him because he is so not my ideal and I feel like I can be myself because I'm not in love with him. — Gary Shteyngart

In my books I try to tell a good story, not give messages. — Avi

My people do, I do not. Gods are a myth, a comforting story for children." "Such — Anthony Ryan

I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script. — Bill Nighy

I'm not the color of my skin. I'm a story. One with a past and a future unwritten. — Heidi W. Durrow

I love to do fashion. I always put fashion in all of my storytelling because that's what I am, but I'm not selling clothes, I'm telling a story. — Patricia Field

My story was not the story of a girl's broken dreams: it was the story of a girl who couldn't be broken. — Heather Schuck

My words did not seem to reach her. Or, if they did, she was unable to grasp their meaning. — Haruki Murakami

I would love my older self to not be in the story of how it should have been, but to live in deep acceptance of how it is. — Boyd Varty