Top 100 Own Story Quotes
#1. My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.
Eve Ensler
#2. Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.
Lionel Shriver
#3. Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.
Barack Obama
#4. I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic.
Yanni
#5. 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
#6. More than any of us, she had written her own story; yet she could not wash it out with all her tears, return to her victims what she had torn from them, and by so doing, save herself ...
Sandra Worth
#7. That is, so to speak, my own story. If I had a wish, I would wish that the sounds of the turning pages of my story after this encounter would resound like the sound of footsteps.
Sorata Akizuki
#9. Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
Edmund White
#11. It's of course important to mention that when DJing, I'm building my own story through the music. I'm figuring out what song to play next, what song to play after that, and how the two will blend together. How the emotion is going to develop from one song to another. So I first build that storyline.
Steve Aoki
#12. Well, she had her own sorry self, her own story, the snowflake of her life, but even as a child she had been unimpressed by the breathless adult observation that no two of these were exactly alike. In the first place, she had thought, how does anybody know that? And in the second place, so what?
Jincy Willett
#13. As a teenager and a young adult, I never felt like my own story was interesting enough to tell, so I always wrote lyrics from someone else's perspective - told someone else's story.
Zach Condon
#14. Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.
Eve Ensler
#15. My own story, anyone's own story, is always told against me, even what I myself am writing here, because I have no heroic history to offer. There is no difficulty not of my own making.
Sebastian Barry
#16. That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines she'd always believed took their fate into their own hands.
Anna Godbersen
#17. For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)
Sheldon B. Kopp
#18. Don't you think every face tells its own story? Like a book? More like a poem. If you study it long enough, you'll soon find its meaning.
Gail Tsukiyama
#19. What I'm trying to say is that you don't understand a man until you understand what makes him do what he does. Every man is a hero in his own story, Princess.
Brandon Sanderson
#20. In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.
Edmund White
#21. Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn't sustain my interest.
Aimee Bender
#22. To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.
Raymond Queneau
#23. I believe there is a hero in each of us. The best books are the ones that remind us of who we already are and empower us to embrace our own story.
Marilynn Halas
#24. You can make up your own story when you look at a photo.
Brian Selznick
#25. A frightening thought had been growing in me. I'd always assumed that I was the central character in my own story but now it occurred to me that I might in fact be only a minor character in someone else's.
Russell Hoban
#26. I told him my own story, from locket to fainting. But I left out the part about how I was supposed to be Criminy's magic mail-order bride.
Delilah S. Dawson
#27. Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
Maeve Binchy
#28. It takes a hell of a lot of courage to walk into your own story, but to be the hero of your own life you have to rescue yourself.
Shannon L. Alder
#29. The story of his great-grandfather ... was his own story, too.
Kelly Cherry
#30. Medicine, I said, begins with storytelling. Patients tell stories to describe illness; doctors tell stories to understand it. Science tells its own story to explain diseases.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#32. When we all pass from this life and gather on the other side, the only thing each of us will have is his own story to tell.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#33. Sugar, that's what they always say. Ya know, everybody wantz to tell stories but they just end up makin' their own story with me to tell to someone else. I haven't heard any stories but I bet I'm in a lot. You don't know it now, but it costs money for my stories.
Chad Faries
#34. My wish has always been to write my own story, to create a life that's worth writing about. But is a story worth anything at all if I have no one to tell it to?
Charlotte Eriksson
#35. Everyone's the lead in their own story, Administrator. Some roles are bigger, some smaller, but none are more important, understand?
Wildbow
#36. To name the world in your own terms, to tell your own story, is an act of authority and power. When you write, you are saying, in effect, 'I have a voice. I have a story. This is what I have to say.'
Rebecca McClanahan
#37. In a weird way, that's the beauty of being an actor. You get to live out things that you're afraid of, and you get to say, 'Well, maybe I can get to the end of it and survive it intact and I can be the hero of my own story.' It's kind of a way of exorcising fear.
Jodie Foster
#38. Just remember, please, most of that stuff is in the past. It isn't the story I want to tell. At all.
You needed to know it, but for the rest of this, I'm choosing my own story.
Because if you can't do that, you might as well just give up.
Patrick Ness
#39. Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.
Jesse Eisenberg
#40. I know you like to be in control and you operate a lot from fear but you have to break the bounds of your past Nicole and rewrite the story you've been telling yourself based off of others experiences. You have to create your own experience, write your own story.
Kathryn Perez
#41. You're encouraged to pitch your own story. That way, you'll have more control over what you do.
Rob Corddry
#42. When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.
Raymond Queneau
#43. What writers do is they tell their own story constantly through other people's stories. They imagine other people, and those other people are carrying the burden of their struggles, their questions about themselves.
Tobias Wolff
#44. I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.
Joyce Maynard
#45. Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.
George R R Martin
#46. The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.
Twyla Tharp
#47. When we all part from this life and gather on the other side, the only thing each of us will have to share is his own story.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#49. Africa's risks are mainly perceived and not real. Unfortunately for us in Africa we are not really very good at telling our own story. But things are changing and people are beginning to understand that things are going very, very well.
Aliko Dangote
#50. She feared that she'd missed something, because there were so many parallels with her own story, and she could not help but see in her head the small memories her mind would offer as tantalizing, but - in the end unsatisfying, glimpses of what may have occurred.
Chris Bohjalian
#51. The problem is that you don't always get to write your own story. You get written into some stories, and if ask why, there isn't an answer. You don't have any control, because the forces at work are too large to confront, and sometimes too large even to understand.
Brendan Kiely
#52. When you're reading, like, a character's thoughts, or when it's in first person, you're reading kind of their own story, so you have the opportunity to see what makes that character complex or complicated. And to me, that's what the whole point of fiction is.
Joe Meno
#53. Everyone has it's own great triumph, has he own story with sadness, madness and reverses. That's how we are build, few are the people which share their story, most cases because of shame.
Deyth Banger
#54. I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that's not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood.
David Levithan
#55. Sometimes we're so wrapped up in our own story that we don't see how we're supporting characters in someone else's. So
Nathan Hill
#56. Write our own story; don't let anyone else hold the pen.
L.M. Nelson
#57. Keep being the author of your own story. Never let anyone else write it for you again.
Jennifer Donnelly
#58. Try everything; listen to everyone. Follow no one. You are your own story guru!
Jeff Lyons
#59. I know that it's axiomatic in the film industry that you're not supposed to let the novelist develop their own story. Well, first of all, that's kind of up to the novelist - because they don't have to sell it. But also, I don't believe it. It's about trust.
Lenny Abrahamson
#60. A poet must discover that it's his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.
Jim Harrison
#62. Some of what I remembered was not my own story. It was twisted like tobacco strands, tangled with a dozen other memories of people who were here and others who were not even a part of the terror.
Jane Kirkpatrick
#64. Culture. A culture is a people enacting a story." "A people enacting a story. And a story again is ... ?" "A scenario interrelating man, the world, and the gods." "Okay. So you're saying that the people of my culture are enacting their own story about man, the world, and the gods." "That's right.
Daniel Quinn
#65. If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity.
Steve Maraboli
#66. Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.
Steven Spielberg
#67. This is the problem with language, and this is what makes silent movies fun, because the connection with them, me or the audience is not with the language. There's no question of interpretation of what we are saying it's just about feeling. You create your own story.
Michel Hazanavicius
#68. I discovered my own story and I fell in love with it.
Ricky Martin
#69. I love talking to people and hearing their stories. Everyone's got their own story to tell, and when you sit down with someone and really talk to them, you can learn so much.
Dan Wells
#70. Those who tell their own story you know must be listened to with caution.
Jane Austen
#71. We all have our own story. And we stay attached to our story. This can stop us from growing and living. You wanna make your life better? Change your story, change your life.
Tony Robbins
#72. We have to have a version of our own story that we keep telling ourselves that allows us to get up in the morning. This version of yourself is what you sell to yourself. I think it necessarily includes ... not looking at certain things. Everybody's got some blind spot.
Steven Soderbergh
#73. She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.
Tad Williams
#74. I always wanted to create this community that would come and tell their own story, shoot it - and watch them. The idea is to not have one entity who creates the work, the project, and another entity who consumes it; the idea is people create their own work, like somebody cultivating his garden.
Michel Gondry
#75. My own [story] is the simplest ... it hardly amounts to more than a convincing proof of my existence - and yet I find it the hardest to begin.
Julian Barnes
#76. You remain the hero of your own story even when you become the villain of someone else's.
Anthony Marra
#77. Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.
Charlotte Eriksson
#78. She had changed the arc of her own story, merely by typing a couple of thousand words each day for thirty days.
Scott Westerfeld
#79. I've allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own story to tell. But I have done my best to make it tell a truthful story.
Tobias Wolff
#80. The goal of 'Revelations' is that once it's all done and finished, and you've read all of it, it is its own story.
Greg Rucka
#81. You never let the cards tell their own story; you were trying to make them confirm what you imagined you knew.
Paulo Coelho
#82. You know, we're each the hero of our own story and we perceive what's going on around us, and especially in a relationship, from the kind of viewpoint of, 'Well, this is my story, and I'm the hero of that, and I justify what I do around it.'
Michael Sheen
#83. Maybe that was the best part. The beautiful peace that came with
living her own story, knowing every turn of the page and tug of the
heart was a new beginning.
Melissa Tagg
#84. We finish our own story. The details of our journey are still a mystery.
Steven Cuoco
#85. In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class ... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
Edmund White
#86. You won't have to worry about that. I am writing my own story. And in my story, I get a happy ending. No matter what happens, they can't touch me.
Jamie McGuire
#87. Lady Vennaway is a horrible, horrible woman, is she not, Cookie?'
Cook hesitated. "Everyone has their own story, even those we find the hardest. Best to accept things the way they are and count your blessings.
Tracy Rees
#88. 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
#89. At times her whimsical fancy would intensify natural processes around her till they seemed a part of her own story. Rather they became a part of it; for the world is only a psychological phenomenon, and what they seemed they were.
Thomas Hardy
#90. I am five, I will never understand
why we are stranded in our selves
but in this moment I know
my own story
is understanding our singleness
that I am destined to move my body and time
into the body-time
the story
of Others.
Sharon Doubiago
#91. You're the hero of your own story.
Dan Baker
#92. People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody when they tell you how your story goes. You know your story. You write your own story.
Kevin Smith
#93. First thing you learn wandering the long roads, kid. Everyone thinks they're the hero of their own story.
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Sebastien De Castell
#94. Everyone," Caitlin said, cradling her wine glass, "is the hero of his own story. That goes double for fanatics. Some of the greatest horrors in history were perpetrated by people who insisted, all the way to damnation's door, that they fought on the side of the angels.
Craig Schaefer
#95. For me, photographs take their power from memory and emotion. A picture tells its own story, shaped by the mood or insights of the person you are at the time you see it.
Robert Keith Leavitt
#96. Whenever you're down on your luck, and when things aren't going the way you like, remember that you are the author of your own story. You can write it any way you like, with anyone you choose. And it can be a beautiful story or a sad and tragic one. You get to pick.
Sarah Jio
#97. I remember what I must do, even if it makes me the villain of my own story
Josephine Angelini
#98. If I can see the future, then what does that mean? It would be like knowing the end of a story right from the start, almost as if you were reading it backwards.
And who wants to know how their own story ends?
Marcus Sedgwick
#99. If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.
Chris Brogan
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