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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
The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.
— Elie Wiesel
The stories and pictures I make for the lives of the people closest to me are the forms of my empathy.
— Siri Hustvedt
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
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
There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.
— Ernest Hemingway,
That's the whole story of my life: frustration. It's a chronic disease, and it's incurable.
— Robert E. Sherwood
The important things that stay are the moments spent listening to people singing, telling stories, enjoying life.
— Paulo Coelho
I think that writers have natural canvases, and my canvas, even in short stories, often seems to be the scope of a life.
— Lauren Groff
I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life.
— Morris Gleitzman
My stories are my children. Some are sweet infants that I coddle and care for. Others are old enough now, they need to damn well get a job!
— Christy Hall
And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.
— Erin Morgenstern
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
Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.
— Paul Auster
Don't judge me by my books. They're not my voices, and they were never my stories to tell.
— Nadege Richards
It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
— Max Frisch
I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I've done it my whole life.
— Cody Horn
Imagine a new story for your life and start living it.
— Paulo Coelho
Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.
— Jane Yolen
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
and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream. — Vera Nazarian
My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side of New York.
— James Gray
Life will go on as long as there is someone to sing, to dance, to tell stories and to listen.
— Oren Lyons
Your life is meant to be an epic story. How you think, perform and live today is part of that script.
— Robin Sharma
Among the tortures and devestations of life is this
then - our friends are not able to finish their stories. — Virginia Woolf
then - our friends are not able to finish their stories. — Virginia Woolf
Once upon a time, a king came to earth to tell stories, and the stories contained the mystery of eternal life.
— Jared C. Wilson
A story is inside of us all. Each word and sentence is alive and we grace the pages to keep it from dying.
— Aisha Mirza
Mindset fuels behavior... Great lives, great relationships, great businesses, and great love stories are cultivated from within.
— Steve Maraboli
What should dictate one's life? Money? Fame? No. Friends. Love. Your life's story is formed by those around you. Choose well and share.
— James Maslow
Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.
— Paula Fox
Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.
— Toni Cade Bambara
All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.
— Neil Gaiman
As it is with all stories, fast cars, wild bears, mental illness, and even life, only one truth remains: your mileage may vary.
— Jenny Lawson
Words from my whole body, my entire life, or the lives of women and girls whose stories got stuck in their throats came gushing out.
— Lidia Yuknavitch
People get stuck in their stories. My advice is to end your story and begin your life.
— Carlos Santana
A rule in life I don't break is - I never take sides between two people. There are two stories and somewhere in the middle lies the truth.
— E.M. Benton
It's a lot more interesting to learn and discover real-life principles when they are revealed in the form of a story.
— Andy Andrews
why do I sleep? Because I dream, and that is where I hear the best stories and find the hidden destinations of life.
— Lori Kay
Sometimes we tell our stories and sometimes our stories tell us.
— Patti Callahan Henry
Thats beautiful! Sad and beautiful, murmured Meggie. Why were sad stories often so beautiful? It was different in real life.
— Cornelia Funke
In dreams and stories we rearrange our lives.
— Marty Rubin
As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.
— Khaled Hosseini
Life can be so difficult, and stories help us escape those difficulties. It's all right to lose yourself in one
— Jennifer Donnelly
It takes courage and maturity to realise your own story.
— Horst Kornberger
Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.
— Ben Okri
People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.
— Valerie Bertinelli
I'm turning into an old man. I own four pairs of oxfords, my stories get a little long winded, and my neighbors play their music too loud.
— Christy Hall
I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you're saying someone else's words and relaying the story of someone else's life, it's not you.
— Uma Thurman
You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.
— Walt Disney Company
I realized that this story [Shelter] is all about family, family loss, and how it influences you day to day life.
— Paul Bettany
We question ourselves through others by way of stories, advice, and gestures; and we receive our answers form listening to others reactions
— Jeremy Aldana
Surprises are everywhere in life. And they usually come from misjudging people for being less than they appear.
— Brownell Landrum
Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table.
— Shannon L. Alder
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
Certain stories that you want to see resolve in certain ways are, and some aren't, but that's life.
— Hugh Bonneville
Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of my parents and the stories they shared with me.
— Geddy Lee
The best stories are often true ... The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.
— Shonda Rhimes
The only man she ever loved. And hated.
— Mary Papas
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
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
And then they bid their final goodbye which marked the end of their story. And beginning of two new stories.
— Crestless Wave
It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
We understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.
— Paulo Coelho
Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
— Orlando Bloom
The story of a mother's life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.
— Cathy Guisewite
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
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
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
Also in "Stories and Scripts:an Anthology — Zack Love
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
The Story of My Life is drinking cups of tea, eating coco pops and playing Playstation.
— Louis Tomlinson
Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
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
To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.
— Rumer Godden
From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, "I survived."
— Craig Scott
I like films that go a little more daring visually, and story-based stuff that usually reflects pretty closely to what real life is.
— William Beckett
Stories mimic life like certain insects mimic leaves and twigs.
— Mary Gaitskill
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
It is right to pay heed to the stories of our people, for that is how we learn who we are and what is required of us in this life and the life beyond.
— Stephen R. Lawhead
We can create transcending stories for readers and for us. Creativity is a double edge sword, which can kill the writer.
— Rossana Condoleo
Change your story, change your life. Divorce the story of limitation, and marry the story of the truth and everything changes.
— Tony Robbins
Stories close the gap and reconcile between what we want life to be and how it actually is.
— Khaled Hosseini
My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.
— Tim O'Brien
I decided to write the book I wanted to read
— David A. Lottes
There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.
— Beyonce Knowles
I draw inspiration from anything and everybody and that's what country music is to me ... real life stories and real life emotions.
— Dustin Lynch
A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one, and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories.
— Alan Bradley
Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.
— David Corbett