Quotes About Writing Your Own Life Story

#1. 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

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

Annisa Widi Astuty

#3. I like to write from my life and the relationships that make it up. I think its important to use music to change people's moods. I try to write my story in a way that people can take for themselves and their own life.

Hoodie Allen

#4. 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

#5. Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are.

Jo Deurbrouck

#6. 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

#7. Desire never stops. Equilibrium is temporary. The self-revelation is never simple, and it cannot guarantee the hero a satisfying life from that day forward. since a great story is always a living thing, its ending is no more final and certain than any other part of the story.

John Truby

#8. Let's say that he should go out and hang himself because he finds that writing well is impossibly difficult. Then he should be cut down without mercy and forced by his own self to write as well as he can for the rest of his life. At least he will have the story of the hanging to commence with.

Ernest Hemingway,

#9. I think the hardest stories we tell are always the ones about ourselves. And as a journalist, I was taught that I'm never supposed to put myself in the story. So I spent what, 11, 12 years of my life writing about other people so I don't have to face my own life.

Jose Antonio Vargas

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

Katherine Center

#11. It's not so much about writing the story of Christmas itself, as ingenious as it is. In reality, it's much more about writing the story of Christmas into the story of life so that it will become the story of life.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#12. The story is the story is the story.

Heather O'Brien

#13. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers.

Kevin Smith

#14. ... 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

#15. My creativity keeps me from starving. Humanity keeps my life mundane. Loving secures my love for life, but my imagination keeps me sane.

F.K. Preston

#16. I am just diving into life again. I just have nothing new to offer right now as an idea for a book. I feel like if I were to write something, I would probably repeat the same idea in a different story.

Karan Bajaj

#17. In her room at the prow of the house
Where light breaks,
and the windows are tossed with linden,
My daughter is writing a story..

Wesley Banks

#18. The unknown characters of writing seem to be endowed with an evil of life of their own as though sentient, and fain would wrest themselves forth from the parchment and wreak mischief on whomsoever gazes upon them.

E. Hoffmann Price

#19. I already knew the next story that I was going to rewrite from the beginning. Mine.

Indu Muralidharan

#20. But if you don't understand that story is character and not just idea, you will not be able to breathe life into even the most intriguing flash of inspiration.

Elizabeth George

#21. Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I've done. I find it strange, but I also feel it's my life and my story, and I guess I better be the one to get it on paper the way it actually happened.

Chris Kyle

#22. And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends.

Fish

#23. If I could have found what I needed at thirteen, I would not have lost so much of my life chasing vindication or death. Give some child, some thirteen-year old, the hope of the remade life. Tell the truth. Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you there is magic in it.

Dorothy Allison

#24. Always let life be wild. Forever have life be interesting.

A.D. Posey

#25. The story world isn't a copy of life as it is. It's life as human beings imagine it could be. It is human life condensed and heightened so that the audience can gain a better understanding of how life itself works.

John Truby

#26. Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.

Kevin Smith

#27. 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

#28. I don't think I can write the story of my life, but I can write the story of my hair.

Rebecca Goldstein

#29. Our lives are a novel being written. We are its author. Every action we encounter and every person we meet has a role and a place in our ultimate story. It is in our control to decide the level of how, who and what impacts us and how large a role we decide to assign each.

Mark W. Boyer

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. When life gives you the gift of a great story, to not partake in the telling of that story would be a crime against humanity.

A.D. Posey

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

Tushar Upreti

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

A.D. Posey

#34. 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

#35. If I were to write the story of my life, I would shock the world.

Caterina Sforza

#36. Writing is a holy occupation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#37. 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

#38. Behind every novel is a greater story of how it came to be published.

T.L. Rese

#39. Well I'm not a storyteller, as far as telling stories which relate to experiences in my own life. That's not what I do. I write songs which have a narrative and attempt to make sense and tell a story - sure! But whenever I hear the word "storyteller" I think of a children's musician.

Freedy Johnston

#40. When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?

Charlie Kaufman

#41. I remember reading the script for 'Dangerous Liaisons' and thinking that I could quite happily spend the rest of my life watching this film; the story and the writing were so wonderful.

Stephen Frears

#42. We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

Christina Baldwin

#43. I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you're too busy living.

F.K. Preston

#44. Is the person I was before dead? Or will the worst things that happened to me eventually get diluted by the rest of my life, become just a part of the story that I've always been writing?

Rebecca Rosenblum

#45. I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story.

Pam Houston

#46. I have a blog where I keep in touch with my fans. I write about things that are important to me. Sometimes on there I'll just tell a little story about the things that happen in my everyday life. People seem to enjoy them well enough.

Patrick Rothfuss

#47. 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

#48. Starting a new chapter is much like composing the perfect photograph. You must ensure the proper components are there. You may throw out the extra, but with out the key elements the story goes untold.

Faith Tilley Johnson

#49. My godfather sad that story was abut taking the chaotic jigsaw of life, making it into a picture and putting a frame around it so that we could look at it, have control over it. Story and art are the humanizing elements of us.

Emma Thompson

#50. Life is a sacred story.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#51. 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

#52. Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.

Vijay Seshadri

#53. Literature, the act of writing, affirms life, however dark the story it tells.

Marty Rubin

#54. Audiences love both the feeling part (reliving the life) and the thinking part (figuring out the puzzle) of a story. Every good story has both.

John Truby

#55. Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline.

Ernest Hemingway,

#56. The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who he is when he is not writing, when he is living his daily life, when he is alive and real, and not dying and without truth.

Maurice Blanchot

#57. I write for the kid in me ... Often when I'm working on a story, I'll find myself laughing at something my characters have done, or even being surprised at where they've taken the story. It's as if they have a life all their own. What I do is create them and then let them go on to entertain me ...

Elvira Woodruff

#58. We are living out the drama of a pathetic story whose pages are smeared with our own handwriting.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#59. Writing a novel mimics what we bring to our journey of life. God is the great editor who purges the faulty, the awkward, and all the bits that are just plain wrong, so the optimal story can finally emerge.

Denise M. Baran-Unland

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

A.D. Posey

#61. Your life should reflect your heart.

A.D. Posey

#62. We should all live as though someone is writing a book about us.

J.R. Rim

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

Airam

#64. Nothing ever really ends. That's the horrible part of being in the short-story business - you have to be a real expert on ends. Nothing in real life ends. 'Millicent at last understands.' Nobody ever understands.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#65. Sooner or later every writer evolves his own definition of a story.
Mine is: A reflection of life plus beginning and end (life seems not to have either) and a meaning.

Mary O'Hara

#66. 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

#67. We write from soul of the heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#68. Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

Ray Bradbury

#69. Because of an instability at my own core, it comforts me to live, fixed, within a story. If reading is our consolation for having been allotted only one life, I find that writing oneself into a fictional world is even more comforting.

Norman Lock

#70. There is nothing like been consumed by the blazing fire of untold story.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#71. 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

#72. If the story is in you, it has to come out.

Mopelola Adeniyi

#73. Read a short story every day. By the end of the week you would have read volumes of stories.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#74. I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he has to tell a story, but because he has a story to tell. The novelist's first novel will generally have sprung from the right cause.

Anthony Trollope

#75. There is nothing to me but you. I know it's pathetic but, oh darling, it's true.

F.K. Preston

#76. When writing a book what is more important? Grammar and spelling or telling a great story? I know which I would choose.

Samuel Colbran

#77. It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.

Helen Keller

#78. The story we write today will support the next generation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#79. Film is the ultimate canvas, the elixir of art, and the magic of life.

A.D. Posey

#80. The greatest happiness is a quiet kind. It's the tender understanding that we're living in a very strange place full of strange creatures. And there's quite a bit of wonder in that.

F.K. Preston

#81. Any experience, which is not written, will be lost in time. Rich literature is lost forever.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#82. For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

William H Gass

#83. 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

#84. All that is required of you is an open mind and a little patience.

F.K. Preston

#85. 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

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#87. The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me.

PJ Harvey

#88. Listen, girl, I came to tell you that life is stupid. It just pulls the same shit over and over. Sometimes you think you can make it come out different, but you can't. You're in a story and the body writing it is an asshole.

Catherynne M Valente

#89. An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop.

Chris Everheart

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

Olivia Munn

#91. I find that writing is the silver lining of life, allowing me to transform vexing experiences into fresh story ideas...after much vexed venting.

Laura Quinn

#92. Crying cleanses the soul.

A.D. Posey

#93. You are not the writer. You are the story being told from The Writer.

Richard Wisniewski

#94. Life is short. Write naked.

A.D. Posey

#95. One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.

Natalie Goldberg

#96. 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

#97. Things that only a writer would understand - you're writing a character - you tell that character who she or he is and they stop you and make it clear, they are the ones telling their story. You just have to let them tell it.

Lisa Marbly-Warir

#98. 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

#99. Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.

Ace Antonio Hall

#100. I write about things that scare me. I've never written a snake story in my life. I myself have never written a story about snakes because they don't scare me. I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me.

Stephen King