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

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

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

I think women have every right to feel like they're the protagonists in their own stories. — Kelly Sue DeConnick

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

By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. — Tim O'Brien

I'll tell you a secret.
Old storytellers never die.
They disappear into their own story. — Vera Nazarian

Alone, over my dead fire, I tend to see the thin places in my own stories. — Virginia Woolf

I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me. — Ed Greenwood

The tabloids create their own stories about people's lives that don't exist. — Elizabeth Olsen

When you're as famous as I am, stories take on a life of their own. — Norman Wisdom

Our parents are the primal source. We make our own lives, but our origin stories are theirs. They go back with us to the beginning of time. — Cheryl Strayed

A synopsis of every story we do: someone gets over their own stupid ass. — Kieron Gillen

If I programmed my own TV network, it would air good news! Just positive stories. Heroic stories. Cute puppy dogs doin' stuff. — Jennifer Aniston

Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story — Deepak Chopra

You create your own reality. — Seth

I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place. — Jeff Kinney

If we own the story then we can write the ending. — Brene Brown

When we deny our stories and disengage from tough emotions, they don't go away; instead, they own us, they define us. — Brene Brown

Be the hero of your own story. — Joe Rogan

No victim wants their record, or their minor story to be told. Every victim should have the right to tell their own story. — Jim Bob Duggar

When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending. — Brene Brown

Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories. — Ruth Ozeki

I ... am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever
& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled. — Jane Austen

It's extremely important for women to be writing their own stories and giving them to people to really be emotionally impacted by — Rosario Dawson

I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own. — Bruce Springsteen

You must give your own story to the world. — Carter G. Woodson

The recounting of a life is a cheat ... even our own stories are obscenely distorted ... — Carol Shields

Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on. — Ursula K. Le Guin

What was the good of acting out fake stories? Why not go live a few stories of your own? — Robert Jordan

In L.A. you hear all these stories of people being filmed in their own homes through their windows. I think that is so scary. — Freida Pinto

We interpret the world through stories ... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps. — Paula Rego

I believe that we can access stories, and voices from those around us, more easily often than from our own imperfect memories. — Tom Barbash

Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories. — Teju Cole

I've always loved books. I was an avid reader, with any number of my own stories rolling around in my head. Writing them down seemed a logical step. — Kat Martin

I wanted to tell stories about people who didn't have the chance to tell their own. — Michael Skolnik

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete. — Salman Rushdie

When you listen to other women's stories you begin to understand your own better and you begin to find ways back through and with each other. — Eve Ensler

My own daughter is a big fan of the 'Twilight' stories, the books. — Michael Sheen

We are each in the middle of our own path. We do not know what will be at the end of our story. — Susan W. Tanner

Go out and find your own stories.That is what I want to tell you. — Gloria Steinem

When we own our stories, we avoid being trapped as characters in stories someone else is telling. — Brene Brown

Sense how
Even the smooth stones ache
With stories of their own
In the shuddering light of day. — Scott Hastie

I will continue to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. But I should be thrice a fool if I did it for aught but my own entertainment. — W. Somerset Maugham

Every life has a purpose. Share your story and you may help someone find their own. — Demi Lovato

Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible. — Carmen Agra Deedy

The stories that spread today empower us and give us belief in our own heroic potential. — Jonah Sachs

Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story. — Nan Fairbrother

I guess when you write a personal story, people feel compelled to share their own stories. — Darin Strauss

Show more interest in their story than your own. — Johnny Hunt

When you have an important story to tell, the words you need seem to come of their own accord. — J. A. Jance

They all had their own struggles and stories to tell and they al made it to this point, happy and in love. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I'd love to see more novels and short stories where the characters have their own folklore that isn't the Plot-Bearing Prophecy of Doom. — Marie Brennan

Stories are where you go to look for the truth of your own life. — Frank Delaney

But we're all characters in our own stories, Iggy. — Kate Klise

Personal inspection at zero altitude. The stories come from my life - if not my own experiences, then about topics and subjects that interest me. — Gary Paulsen

This love beyond time and space, it knows only it's own truth. Immortalis Amor, Darkest Secrets — Dominique Vandorien

We need the skeletons of other stories to understand our own, sometimes. — Lauren Groff

I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it. — Anne Rice

When we, any of us who have been transformed by Christ, tell our own stories, we're telling the story of who God is. — Shauna Niequist

We don't often see our own stories. Good artists are the ones that whisper our own stories back to us. — Tori Amos

We all have our own stories, and they part and intersect in many different places. It's — Ginger Scott

The poems and stories we shared with each other could mean what we wanted them to mean. We could choose our own path together. — Ally Condie

You are your own journey. — A.D. Posey

How many of us share the stories of our lives with our own children? What a loss to the children if we don't. — James Patterson

It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to write unpaid ... initially and my own stories. — Peter Morgan

In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be. — Juliet Stevenson

Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story. — Darren Aronofsky

The stories that I want to tell are completely, well, somewhat autobiographical. It's completely based on my own self-absorption issues and problems. — Nicole Holofcener

Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you're in the middle of it — Nick Cave

We want to be seen for who we really are, and each person has his own complex story and reasons for doing what they do. — Annette Bening

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. — Tanith Lee

I can write my own stories and I can write myself in. — Octavia Butler

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

No- one is ever told any story but their own. — Reza Aslan

Great characters tell their own stories. The author just writes it down for them. — Molly Evangeline

Every book is its own black hole. Don't fight the pull; find out where it takes you. — Richelle E. Goodrich

These heads sheltered by umbrellas
be they of Zeb-un-Nisa, or Catherine
of Cleopatra or Fenichka
live with their own stories — Suman Pokhrel

We live vicariously through stories, because our own lives provide so few opportunities for high-stakes adventure and noble sacrifice. — Sarah Cross

People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it. — Aaron Carter

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. — Bob Dylan

When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it. — Tracy Kidder

For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience. — Brad Pitt

Be the hero of your own life story. — Gerard Butler

Myths, told for their own sake, are not stories that have meanings, but stories that give meanings. — James P. Carse

A child's own story is a dream, but a good story is a dream that is true for more than one child. — Margaret Wise Brown

We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story. — Maxine Kumin

Stories are what grow from the seeds of adventure. Seek out adventures of your own and then tell some stories. — Marty Conley

Quit dwelling on other people's stories and make up some of your own. — Alethea Kontis

To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories. — Sarah Kay

Africa's story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story. — Paul Kagame

Nevertheless, old stories, old rumors, and old picture books still seemed to have their own hold on the memory of the world. What — Terry Pratchett

So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to have them heard. — Sarah Polley

If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's. — Chris Brogan

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

All of us to one degree or another disconnect from God's story because we are fundamentally committed to being the author of our own stories. — Bill Delvaux

Improvise. Write your own damn story. — Eric Lange

In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities, of our own lives. — Sam Keen

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories. — George R R Martin

If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will. — Mira Nair