Top 100 Quotes About Your Story
#1. Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton. It is how you 'flesh out and clothe' your structure that makes each story unique.
Caroline Lawrence
#2. Be open to suggestions, but don't let anyone dictate how you should tell your story. Who can possibly tell your story better than you?
Giuseppe Bianco
#3. Always follow your dreams. Never give up. If you have a thought in your mind write it down. If you have a desire in your heart to write, then write. Tell your story. Make a difference. Touch someone's heart.
S. Sloan
#4. It's really important to visit a site you are writing about. Even if you know it well, even if you have lived there, it's important to take a fresh look in terms of your characters and your story.
Marge Piercy
#5. I've never once thought about the interpretative, the storytelling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever. You can tell your story any way you damn well please. It's your solo.
Jandy Nelson
#6. What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story.
Richie Norton
#7. Forget how long the path to finishing your story. Address only what you have to write today.
Martha Alderson
#8. I want to be part of your story. I want your story to rearrange the symbols in my mind. I want your voice to be my voice.
David Bowles
#9. When I was a boy, my mother would tell me that one of the best things in life is the knowledge that our story isn't over yet. Our story may have come to a close, but your story is still yet to be told.
Make it a story worthy of you
Renee Ahdieh
#10. You better have your story down before you take it to a teenager.
Margaret Stohl
#11. You share with people who've earned the right to hear your story ... You have to earn the right to hear my story. It's an honor to hold space for me when I'm in shame.
Brene Brown
#13. You can make it your excuse, or you can make it your story.
Isaiah Austin
#14. If you didn't cried this time While narrating your story' it proves you are healed now
Nehali Lalwani
#15. The "difficult" female character can-and will-do the shocking, the unexpected and, as a consequence, will give your story an immediate jolt of energy. She is the character who doesn't fit the mold.
Jane Heller
#16. The price of coming from a small town is that everyone knows your story. Your book has been read, shelved, dusted, and re-read by everybody.
Brian Joyce
#17. Don't get hung up on the hard times, the challenges. Tell your story by highlighting the victories. Because it's your victories that will inspire, motivate, encourage other people to live their stories in grander ways.
Iyanla Vanzant
#18. It's one thing to not want an evil-sorcerer type villain in your story, but it's another thing to avoid having any sort of antagonist at all. A story without an antagonist gets weird pretty quick.
Patrick Rothfuss
#19. If your characters write your story, rather than you writing your characters, it's like your dog taking YOU for a walk. Don't let them control you. Take charge and train them to listen to their master.
Jessica Bell
#22. I think you're a fairy tale. I think you're magical, and brave, and exquisite. And I hope you'll let me be in your story.
Laini Taylor
#23. May be I am villain in your story, but I am hero in mine.
Shon Mehta
#24. If you can remove a female character from your plot and replace her with a sexy lamp and your story still works, you're a hack.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
#25. Everybody has a story that must be told.
Your life is your story.
Tell your story.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#26. Every part of life changes with every breath we take. If you don't like where your story is headin', you fight your fate with everything you have.
Jessica Fortunato
#27. Social Media begins with a story - your story.
Germany Kent
#28. 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
#29. Whatever your story, the world does not need to mould you.
Tim Hughes
#30. If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Orson Welles
#31. Every life has a purpose. Share your story and you may help someone find their own.
Demi Lovato
#32. In the end, you have to make love to your story and see what happens.
A.D. Posey
#33. Our life is a blank book and we are the authors......... Write and shape your story as much as the mind can imagine it
Jason Calder
#34. If you are able to talk about your life and the joys and sorrows you have experienced, if you know your story, you are much more likely to be a skillful parent.
Desmond Tutu
#35. Don't sell your story, just tell your story.
J.J. Abrams
#36. I feel like there's no real innovation in having some music. It's more just unique personalities and unique expressions, and you being able to tell your story.
Maynard James Keenan
#37. Pace doesn't mean speed; it means the right speed. Diagnosis and cure are simple. If you've reached where you want to be in your story too quickly, ask yourself what you've left out. If you've come to a certain point too slowly, ask yourself what kept you so long.
Reginald Hill
#38. Only God can write the end of your story.
Mitch Albom
#39. Your story is the greatest legacy that you will leave to your friends.It's the longest-lasting legacy you will leave to your heirs.
Steve Saint
#40. Don't give up. Don't give up no your story. Don't give up on the people you love. Hope is real. Love is real. It's all worth fighting for.
Jamie Tworkowski
#41. Be true to yourself and to the culture you were born into. Tell your story as only you can.
William Zinsser
#42. Tell your story with your whole heart.
Brene Brown
#43. Nora, I believe life's like a good book. Time makes up the pages that will be your story. Every time your life changes, you start a new chapter. To me, there's nothing more depressing than someone getting to the end of their days and realizing they've only written one long, boring passage.
Elizabeth Isaacs
#44. it's never too late to change. Every day is a blank page, and your story has yet to be written.
Amy Zhang
#45. There is only one type of story in the world-your story.
Ray Bradbury
#46. Your fear remains strong. You are not ready to face your story, preferring instead to surround yourself with knots. Someday, they will strangle you.
Maria V. Snyder
#47. When you are producing for ABC, you are producing for a big tent network. So when you are thinking about your story lines and characters, you are thinking about broad appeal. When you are producing for a niche interest, you are producing for a different audience.
Anne Sweeney
#48. You are the designer of your destiny; you are the author of your story.
Lisa Nichols
#49. I was about to warn the girl about John's coffee, which tasted like a cup of battery acid someone had pissed in and then cursed at for several hours, but John turned to her and in a lawyerly voice said, Shelly, tell us your story.
David Wong
#50. When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.
Isaac Asimov
#51. I think the main thing over time is that you gain confidence and are able to tell your story better and stronger.
Roksanda Ilincic
#52. The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.
John Barth
#53. But if your story is about the inner workings of competitive quilting, you'd better make it short and extra witty. People drift off when you stop talking about stuff that isn't, well, them. The
Scott Adams
#54. If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.
Jodi Picoult
#55. If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?
Amy Purdy
#56. Your story matters, who you are matters, tonight matters, none of it is an accident. You were born for the blue skies.
Jon Foreman
#58. As soon as I saw tattoos as a way to tell your story, I thought, 'Oh my gosh, I totally get it.' So I got my first tattoo a couple of years ago, and it's the word 'hope' on my left arm. It has a couple of dots at the end for each of my kids.
Kristian Bush
#59. I don't know anything about directing, but if you love actors, know your story and hire a great company, then anyone can direct a film.
Peter Hedges
#60. Don't you dare feel guilty for letting those who dim your light, go. Not everyone you meet deserves to be a character in your story.
Nikki Rowe
#61. I started as a playwright. Any sort of scriptwriting you do helps you hone your story. You have the same demands of creating a plot, developing relatable characters and keeping your audience invested in your story. My books are basically structured like three-act plays.
Suzanne Collins
#62. If you believe in your story, someone else will!
Kristy Brown
#63. It's the way you play that makes it ... Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got it, if you're going to get it. And whatever you get, that's you, so that's your story.
Count Basie
#64. I really believe that we all have the ability to come out of our story. But you have to tell your story first in order to come out of it.
Mariel Hemingway
#65. Share with people who have earned the right to hear your story.
Brene Brown
#66. You know the actor's nightmare is getting up onstage and not being prepared? I think the writer's nightmare is giving a reading and somebody standing up and saying, 'That's not your story.'
Lynn Coady
#67. Never oversimplify yourself by using a single word or category to describe who you are. Take the time to tell your story.
Derek Webb
#68. All you can do is put your story out there enough times and hope that a couple will understand that no matter what type of athlete you are - there were no athletes better than I was, there was no one who had more going for him than I did, there was no athlete stronger mentally than I was.
Lawrence Taylor
#69. You don't realize your story is changing you until you look back.
Donald Miller
#70. Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#71. As a writer you can and should expect to hear conflicting responses to your story.
John Dufresne
#72. Not knowing stuff - like how your story ends before you start writing - is the seed of a lot of writer's block.
Dan Alatorre
#73. You have to be in love with your story ... It's the love of the light; the time of day; of watching the moment unravel.
Lynn Johnston
#74. Typically, when you sell your story rights to a movie production company, they can do whatever they want with it. The writer is typically not involved anymore.
Watt Key
#76. Finding true love may be a beautiful portion of your story, but it was never intended to be the grand finale.
Debra Fileta
#77. And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep going on, they overlap and blur, your story is part of your sister's story is part of many other stories, and there is no telling where any of them may lead.
Erin Morgenstern
#78. Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.
Mason Cooley
#79. Dream. Think. Believe. Pray. Do. Become. Then, share your story and inspire others. Share you story!
Jose N. Harris
#80. Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential.
Kerry Washington
#81. It doesn't matter how beautifully a film is photographed. The acting tells your story. It's what people relate to. If you don't believe the characters, it doesn't work.
Seymour Cassel
#82. Remember that the writing itself is good for you. If your story is so close to home that you are afraid to write it, it probably means you need to write it.
Tayari Jones
#83. Don't leave you to go find your point of view and your story. You are all you have been given ... this is who you are, and from where you ought and need to write.
Bret Lott
#84. The only thing you own is your story. Make sure it's a good one.
Maya Angelou
#85. Unconscious of your story, you are in its grasp; but with consciousness, an alchemical process begins: The solidity of the complex dissolves and you can open up to the arrival of a new archetype, the birth of a new cycle of life. In the shadow, then, lies our myth and our fate.
Connie Zweig
#86. No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about ... One thing's for sure - no one but you can be the hero of your story.
Jerry Spinelli
#87. It's about players making choices as they play, and then dealing with the consequences of those choices. It's about you telling your story, not me telling mine. It's about you.
Warren Spector
#88. When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn't mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over.
Tony McCollum
#89. I guess, really, in summary, everything I've been trying to say is that your life should be full of stories you want to tell. If you don't want to tell it, ever, why are you doing it? Likewise, if no one else cares to hear your story, with limited exceptions, why are you doing it?
Nick Manning
#90. I think I've learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and from your heart - and I think a healthy sense of humor doesn't hurt either.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#91. Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.
Kevin J. Anderson
#92. The abuse does not define you or have the last word on your identity. Yes, it is part of your story, but not the end of your story.
Lindsey A. Holcomb
#93. Great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#94. Writing is new, relatively speaking. Story telling is ancient. Tell your story first putting aside all other worries. Leave fretting over homonyms, semicolons, and Oxford commas to editors and friends you can be bribe with baking.
Ada Maria Soto
#95. God is going to send you someone that will rescue you. Then one day you will rescue them in return and together your story will rescue others. He has always been a God of rescues and a maker of warriors for his grace. You only need to believe that you are part of something greater than you know.
Shannon L. Alder
#96. Read the stories of the past to write your story for the future.
Habeeb Akande
#97. So what's your story?" Ryan asks.
Avery looks up at him, hand still in the water. "My story?"
"Yeah. Everybody has at least one.
David Levithan
#98. As a screenwriter, there's so many layers you have to go through in order to tell your story. You have to write the script, get money for the script, shoot it, find distributors, make it into film festivals, all of that just to get to your audience.
Morley
#99. How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?
Jodi Picoult
#100. No matter who you are or what kind of company or organization you work for, your number-one job is to tell your story to the consumer wherever they are, and preferably at the moment they are deciding to make a purchase.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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