Write Your Own Life Story Quotes

#1. Living is not an art, but to write of life is. Life is a series of accidents and anticlimaxes, misremembered and misunderstood, with lessons only dimly learned. Life is disorganized, lacks shape, lacks story.

Christopher Priest

#2. I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

Carlos Ghosn

#3. 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

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. I think no one but me has the right to write about my life as I want to write it in a particular way. I don't think any other person will be able to tell the story of my life like how I have approached it. It works best when it's written by someone who has experienced it herself.

Preity Zinta

#6. You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.

Helen Mirren

#7. You don't need a big pen to write a tall story

Benny Bellamacina

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

A.D. Posey

#9. I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.

David Levithan

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. Be patient. Life will give you what you need (to write your story).

Francine Prose

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

A.D. Posey

#13. 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

#14. I would like to write my life story, but it seems to write itself.

T.D. Mulhern

#15. 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

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. My life has been such a blur since I was 18, 19 years old. I haven't even had time to contemplate my own life. By forcing yourself to write your life story you learn a great deal about yourself.

Grant Achatz

#18. Only God can write a story that resonates not just in the power of the imagination or the heart or the mind, but in the very soul; only God can write a story that brings dead things to life.

Jared C. Wilson

#19. 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

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

Majid Kazmi

#21. 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

#22. If anything viewed as negative has happened on your journey thus far, turn the page, create a new chapter, and write your own positive story. Then, bless humanity with the wisdom you have gained by traveling through the experience.

Molly Friedenfeld

#23. In life you must write your own story, or one will be written for you.

A.J. Garces

#24. You are the writer of your life story; so don't forget to write the best one.

Debasish Mridha

#25. I know you like to be in control and you operate a lot from fear but you have to break the bounds of your past Nicole and rewrite the story you've been telling yourself based off of others experiences. You have to create your own experience, write your own story.

Kathryn Perez

#26. 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

#27. Write your own story, preferably in tattoos.

Lauren Rachelle

#28. Keep being the author of your own story. Never let anyone else write it for you again.

Jennifer Donnelly

#29. 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

#30. And just what do these words of punches and feints write down? The story of my family.

Davide Enia

#31. I write - and read - for the sake of the story ... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these characters and observe these events in real life? Is this story an experience worth living through for its own sake? Is the pleasure of contemplating these characters an end itself?

Ayn Rand

#32. You are the poem I never knew how to write and this life is the story I have always wanted to tell.

Tyler Knott Gregson

#33. Our doubts are traitors and make us
lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. In other words, a
wish is a good place to start but then you have to get off your butt and make it
happen. You have to pick up a quill and write your own damn story. (Mimi Wallingford)

Suzanne Selfors

#34. If your life is a blank page, that only means you have room to write your story. You have the power to tell that story the way you want to.

Thea Harrison

#35. 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

#36. We write from soul of the heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#37. What are you thinking about?"
"Whether they'll write my life story as a tragedy or an epic fantasy.

Maggie Stiefvater

#38. Life has sadness, joy, beauty, like poetry.
So be passionate and write a great story.

Debasish Mridha

#39. You have one chance to write the story of your life. Make it a bestseller.

Karen Kingsbury

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

J.R. Rim

#41. Your life should reflect your heart.

A.D. Posey

#42. This is my life ... my story ... my book. I will no longer let anyone else write it; nor will I apologize for the edits I make.

Steve Maraboli

#43. Every step in life tends risky, face it to write a story wen it bcums an History

Bukoye Micheal

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

A.D. Posey

#45. You know, I like to think my life is kind of like the books I read, only I'm the author. I can write the story I want. The future can be anything I want it to be." He moved his head side to side, considering my words. "That works, as long as your story has a blond stud that fucks like an animal.

Adriana Locke

#46. 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

#47. 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,

#48. Life is a fairytale if we know how to write the story.

Debasish Mridha

#49. 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

#50. What does it mean to write a story of your own life in your head? We all do that whether we are writers or not. We all have a story about who we are: what gender we are, what experiences we have . . . all sorts of stories and narratives we allow ourselves to believe in and create as we go along.

Cyril Wong

#51. If you own this story you get to write the ending.

Brene Brown

#52. My mom thinks I'm the heroine in every book I write ... so I'm a demon possessed, call girl, vampire killing, elfin college student who likes to have sex in elevators.
Story of my life ...

H.M. Ward

#53. Crying cleanses the soul.

A.D. Posey

#54. Remember each new day you get to turn a page in your life and write your own story. So how do you choose to write it?

Tammy Mentzer Brown

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

Olivia Munn

#56. I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.

Dawn French

#57. Reading others' stories will be worthless unless you write your own story.

Raj Singh

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

Helen Keller