Quotes About Writing Your Life Story

#1. When writing your life story, love writes a masterpiece.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#2. Well-developed characters will ruin your writing plans every time. You may think you know where you're going with a story, but they have other ideas.

Quinn Anderson

#3. When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story

Tushar Upreti

#4. Begin to write, your heart will flow with sacred words.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Write your sacred story.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#7. Give all of life's oxygen to the fire that is your soul.

A.D. Posey

#8. And the wind will whip your tousled hair, The sun, the rain, the sweet despair, Great tales of love and strife. And somewhere on your path to glory You will write your story of a life.

Harry Chapin

#9. Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

Gloria Swanson

#10. When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something to be learned about that approach in real life

Carl Henegan

#11. If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

Caroline B. Cooney

#12. Forget how long the path to finishing your story. Address only what you have to write today.

Martha Alderson

#13. Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.

Horacio Quiroga

#14. Your current circumstances are part of your redemption story He is writing.

Evinda Lepins

#15. It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The writing is the statement, you see, and it seems to me that the poem or the story or the novel you write is the kind of metaphor you cast on life.

Hortense Calisher

#16. There are as many ways to discover your story as there are to trip over a dog in the kitchen--and some of them feel about as planned.

Jeffrey A. Carver

#17. Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.

Charlotte Eriksson

#18. Your only job is creating a life that contains a story worth telling.

Carolyn Parkhurst

#19. Your life is a story. Write the one you want to read.

A.D. Posey

#20. Your life is truly your life ... it belongs to you. It is your story to write with love. Day by day, line by line, write it well

Lance Wubbels

#21. Your whole life and the story of your journey is the landscape picture on the front of the box of a 1,000 piece puzzle. The pieces are each a small sticky note that ends in mid-sentence. You simply need to figure out where each one starts and ends.

Ashly Lorenzana

#22. You and you alone are the only person that can live the life that writes the story that you were meant to tell. And the world needs your story because the world needs your voice.

Kerry Washington

#23. Search your own life for the story only you can tell. The best thing about writing from life is that you can be sure of using original material. And no research is needed beyond the time you spend looking deep inside your own heart.

Elizabeth Held Forsyth

#24. I keep the description basic as it allows you to mould the story around your life.

Airam

#25. Your life should reflect your heart.

A.D. Posey

#26. Love is the key to everything. Love your life.

A.D. Posey

#27. Your story must told.
Live a life legacy- written book or notes.
This will be there for many generations to know your rich experiences and knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character.

Olivia Munn

#29. We write to share the deepest heart-talk of our souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your boyfriend or your grandma ... I'm getting a little tired of 'my life story as fiction'. Please don't tell me about your little life - is there nothing larger? More important?

Toni Morrison

#31. If you don't think screenwriting is a work of art, good luck in your life without a soul.

A.D. Posey

#32. Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is most private and probably most interesting for that very reason.

Judith Krantz

#33. ... writing is about developing the capacity to expose yourself on the page, if not your life story at the very least your prevailing anxieties and the people who caused them.

Steve Almond

#34. You are writing the story of your only life every single minute of every day.

Katherine Center

#35. Violence can read like poetry. You just have to describe the act as if you're in love with the way your characters bleed.

F.K. Preston

#36. You can't write your life story and leave out one of the most important things that happened to you in your life. I think that that would be dishonest, and it would be something people would be very angry about.

Kris Jenner

#37. When writing the story of your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen.

Annisa Widi Astuty

#38. Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much of this is your life. The story is a way you unravel your life from behind a mask.

Edwidge Danticat

#39. The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
[Keynote Address, University of the Arts, 134th Commencement (Philadelphia, PA, May 17, 2012)]

Neil Gaiman