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I am the author of my story and I can tell it any way I want. — Jandy Nelson

Who am I to stop everybody just to tell my stupid story? It's presumptuous. — Brendan Benson

My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell. — Gloria Swanson

If I can tell my story, and help anybody else in the interim, then that's icing on the cake. — Jeff Conaway

I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level. — Joyce Maynard

Everybody has a story that must be told.
Your life is your story.
Tell your story. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell you about the character's origin or back story. — Gail Carriger

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

I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story. — David Levithan

Tell me why it feels like you're a part of my soul? — Cassandra Giovanni

To tell my story, to touch lives. — Emmanuel Jal

Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion. — Depak Chopras

If I don't journey forward along these tracks then you will never be born. Then who will there be to tell my story? — Leah Kaminsky

I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you. — Yann Martel

If it's me who loves you, you'll know, as I will tell it you in my own words. — Auliq Ice

My job is to tell a story, and the decisions about the casting have to be honest. — Imtiaz Ali

I think I have a disease called spontaneous disclosure. I need to tell everyone my life story instantaneously. — Kelly Ripa

My mother always said, 'The best way to ruin a story is to tell the other side.' — Gordon Smith

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

When I was as little as four years old, my mom would give me a pen and paper and tell me to write a story to keep me busy. — Tracie Peterson

From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story. — Alberto Manguel

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it. — Karl Lagerfeld

When I write my book, Ill tell the real story of Cheryl — Louis Walsh

When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story. — Jerry B. Jenkins

My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices. — Lily Collins

My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy. — John Green

You're the best bad decision I ever made, and you are, by far, my favorite story to tell. — Jay Crownover

As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately. — Julianna Baggott

I hate travelling and explorers. Yet here I am proposing to tell the story of my expeditions. — Claude Levi-Strauss

All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been and how I got to where I am. — Brandi Carlile

It's why I am a writer...To avoid the narrow mesh of Mrs Winterson's story I had to be able to tell my own. — Jeanette Winterson

My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about God. — Rob Bell

No one tells me anything new, so I tell myself my own story. — Friedrich Nietzsche

As usual, I shall tell my story badly; and you, as usual, will think me extravagant. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name. — Kendrick Lamar

Music is what feelings sound like out loud. I sing songs that speak from my heart. They tell my story, how I feel. — Georgia Cates

Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother. — Jane Taylor

My gift seems to be that I am able to tell a story in a comprehensible and engaging way. — Peter Coyote

And if you have five seconds to spare, I'll tell you the story of my life. — Morrissey

I knew from my television work that I could sit down and put words on paper but didn't know if I had the talent to tell a story in novel form. — Simon Toyne

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

I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples. — Andrew Solomon

My first customer is myself. When I tell a story I like, I can sleep easy. I'm sorry when audiences don't like it, but I have no choice. — Lina Wertmuller

I want my music to be able to tell a story about what I've experienced and what I think my fans will be able to understand also. — Cody Simpson

My boyfriend asked me to tell a story without my hands, and I couldn't talk. — Tracy Spiridakos

I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means. — Dorothy Allison

Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell. — Gilbert Hernandez

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

All I wanted to do was to follow my passion and tell a good story. — David Lagercrantz

Character is always my driving force. And to tell a good story and to provide an entertaining read. — Monica Ali

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 should tell my story. I'm also unemployed ... I'm networking. I have my sight on a particular job. — Mitt Romney

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

If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way. — Anderson Cooper

Tell me a fact, and I'll learn. Tell me a truth, and I'll believe. But tell me a story, and it will live in my heart forever. — Ed Sabol

Glancing at the shadows, "Come in," I beseech. "Let me see, let me touch you. Talk to me ... And let me tell you my story. — Uvi Poznansky

I'm the only one who can accurately tell my story. It's up to me to make it worth reading. — Keisha Elle

Wait till it's my turn to tell the story! They'll be like 'Bear who? — T.J. Klune

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

I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me. — Angelique Kidjo

I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back. — Hermann Hesse

Those are the facts. It's easy to believe in facts, my dear. To believe in the story you need faith. Tell me the story as you experienced it. — Patti Callahan Henry

When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point. — Lauren DeStefano

I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes. — Amy Bloom

As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story. — Jay Asher

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

My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story. — Julianna Baggott

This is the first time I will tell my story in English, a language still new to me. The journey to this moment has been a long one. — Hyeonseo Lee

I didn't think before that I'd done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I'm now ready to tell my story. — Cilla Black

When the night turns into morning
I want during the day, tell my story when evening twilight passed — Yorris Ys

When I'm interviewed on Leno, just be funny, period. That's all they want from me. I don't want to tell my life story. — David Spade

I am a story-teller working with a craft. My job is to use my craft - which is a different thing to my race - and tell a story well. — Gavin Hood

I'm definitely still putting effort into my lyrics, for them to be emotional and tell a story. — Robert Coppola Schwartzman

Stains tell a story," Zac said, waving his arms as he spoke. "My car is full of random stains. — Shana Norris

The only thing that remained consistent over the years was my ability and enthusiasm to tell the story. — Herb Trimpe

I want to tell you a story about my mother, although of course it is also mine - inherited, along with dangly earlobes and a horror of deep water. — Tanya Moir

Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself. — James Herbert

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

I've evolved in my writing to tell a more emotional story - my publisher, Random House, has urged that. — Alan Furst

Unfortunately I have no rags-to-riches story to tell. Money never played a big role for me. My parents just had it. — Stelios Haji-Ioannou

What I'm hoping to do though is to ground my extrapolations in specificity, and to make sure that the story I tell is deliberately and honestly told. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I'm telling my story as a political document. — Larry Kramer

As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers. — Stephen King

If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy. — Brian K. Vaughan

If I was able to tell my story with the passion I felt, my lecture might help others find a path to fulfilling their own dreams. — Randy Pausch

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

Must I tell the story of my life again? — John Garfield

I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story. — Elena Anaya

My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible. — Karen Thompson Walker

So much history can be lost if no one tells the story
so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change. — Alanis Obomsawin

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

I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings. — Allen Sapp

I try to tell my story as simply as possible, with the camera at eye level. — Howard Hawks

Rip yourself open.
Tell me my life story before I die.
Sew yourself shut. — Chuck Palahniuk

You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone! — Christy Hall

But I live an interesting life and I can tell a pretty good story and it has helped my career. But the downside is people know everything. — Artie Lange

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

It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep. — Corazon Aquino

My main goal is to tell a story. — Stephen Sondheim