When Writing The Story Of Your Life Quotes

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

Annisa Widi Astuty

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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,

#6. 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

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

Marty Rubin

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Natalie Goldberg

#15. Life is short. Write naked.

A.D. Posey

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

Richard Wisniewski

#17. 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

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

Tushar Upreti

#19. When I write a story, I just wanna tell you what's in my head. It can come from real life and then turn into fantasy, stuff just rhyming. And write about what you know. I just like to tell stories that have not been told or told from my perspective.

Nas

#20. 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

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

Samuel Colbran

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

F.K. Preston

#23. 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

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Mopelola Adeniyi

#26. 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

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. We write from soul of the heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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.

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

Airam

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

J.R. Rim

#36. Your life should reflect your heart.

A.D. Posey