Tell Your Own Story Quotes

#1. If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.

Isabel Allende

#2. To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories.

Sarah Kay

#3. Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

Louise Bourgeois

#4. Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

Billy Graham

#5. If you tell your own story to your children - that includes your positive moments and your negative moments, and how you overcame them - you give your children the skills and the confidence they need to feel like they can overcome some hardship that they've felt.

Bruce Feiler

#6. 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

#7. When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes.

Dave Eggers

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Hence the necessity of getting off the merry-go-round too figure out what is really going on and let your sad feelings tell their own sometimes weird, complex, and long-winded story.

Frederick Woolverton

#9. Tell your story: yes, tell your story! Give your example. Tell everyone that it's possible, and other people will then have the courage to face their own mountains.

Paulo Coelho

#10. You are your own hero. Do not wait for someone to save you, rescue you or tell you that you are ok. Be the hero of your own story and never, ever let them make you the victim.

John Goode

#11. I don't want to tell what the songs are about for me, because then people can't decide for themselves, which is why I write; it's for you to find your own meaning in. For me it's my story, for someone else it's theirs; if I tell exactly what it means, then it's only my story.

Brian Fallon

#12. There is no right or wrong way to tell a story. You have to find your own way. You can get your idea from listening, looking, or imagining. Stories are everywhere. All you have to do is pay attention.

Kate DiCamillo

#13. You are the storyteller and the editor of your book of life. So write tales of imagination, tragedy, and adventure and illustrate it with the colors of beauty.

Debasish Mridha

#14. Sometimes the hardest story to tell is your own

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#15. 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

#16. We all have our own stories. The story you tell about yourself, even if you only tell it to yourself, drives your actions and has a significant impact on your focus.

Mani S. Sivasubramanian

#17. The best story to tell your kids is that of your own family.

Lauren Machta

#18. Inspired by words you have to create images to tell the story, while it's much more difficult to find your own images with a film for inspiration, because someone has already done it for you.

Peter Lindbergh

#19. Every story you tell is your own story.

Joseph Campbell

#20. Tell the story that's in your heart. Write for your own pleasure, not anyone else's. Then, if and when you're ready, find a reputable editor who will be honest with you about the quality of your book and your chances of publication. But never, ever, stop enjoying writing or you will be lost

Jane Cable

#21. In writing practice, there's no direction. You enter your own mind and follow it where it takes you. We have a great need to connect with our own mind and our own true self. And all of us have a story to tell.

Natalie Goldberg

#22. Don't let anyone tell your story. Pick up a pen and write your own.

Majid Kazmi

#23. It's very healing,' he said, 'to tell yourself your own story as though you were reciting a myth.

Frank Delaney

#24. You're nobody's doorway but your own, and the only one who gets to tell you how your story ends is you.

Seanan McGuire

#25. I believe that everybody needs to tell their story - to be heard, to be seen, to be acknowledged, to be understood. We all want that, deep down inside - and writing a book is a great way to make sense of your own experience and to share it with others.

Shakti Gawain

#26. If you tell the story you will live the story. If you live the story you have to own the story. If you dont like the story your living, stop telling it.

Virginia Johnston-Dodds

#27. I am one man with a laptop. When I give the world my characters, it's because I don't want to keep them for myself. You don't like what I made them do? Fucking tell me I'm wrong! Rewrite the story. Throw in a new plot twist. Make up your own ending.

J.C. Lillis

#28. Tell your story: Yes, tell your story. Show your example. Tell everyone it's possible, and others shall feel the courage, to climb their own mountains.

Paulo Coelho

#29. Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.

Darren Aronofsky

#30. I think that's how you have to make films. You can't try to imitate or repeat. You have to make your own thing, tell the story that is in your own heart.

Maryann Brandon

#31. It could be seen as narcissistic to have your own museum, but for me, it's such a long time ago - I have perspective. That young man in the funny clothes - he's almost a stranger, so I can tell his story.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

#32. It's important that we share our experiences with other people. Your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else. When you tell your story, you free yourself and give other people permission to acknowledge their own story

Iyanla Vanzant

#33. Everybody loves a good story, but good storytelling doesn't come easy to everybody. It's a skill that takes a lifetime to master. So study the great stories and then go find some of your own. Your stories will get better the more you tell them.

Austin Kleon

#34. 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

#35. Then it was you who wounded Aravis?"
"It was I."
"But what for?"
"Child," said the Voice, "I am telling you your story, not hers. I tell no one any story but his own.

C.S. Lewis