Top 100 Your Own Story Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story
Deepak Chopra
#3. You were the villain in your own story, Martinez. In mine, you've always been my hero.
M. Robinson
#4. The theme you choose may change or simply elude you, but being your own story means you can always choose the tone. It also means that you can invent the language to say who are you and what you mean.
Toni Morrison
#5. I'd wish you good luck, but you won't need it. You get to write your own story now. Nothing's luckier than that.
Jennifer Donnelly
#6. 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
#7. Be the hero of your own story. You are born to turn you mess into a message and the test into a testimony.
Farshad Asl
#8. Reading others' stories will be worthless unless you write your own story.
Raj Singh
#9. There's definitely a delicate line you have to walk in telling someone else's story that's not quite as delicate in telling your own story. I think when I'm working on a personal story, there's less pressure to try to get it exactly right.
Box Brown
#10. We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words you are the hero of your own story.
Mary McCarthy
#11. If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.
Isabel Allende
#12. Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.
Charles Stross
#13. 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
#15. You're the hero...," she said, finding his eyes,"...of your own story anyway.
V.E Schwab
#17. It's very healing,' he said, 'to tell yourself your own story as though you were reciting a myth.
Frank Delaney
#18. It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.
Keren Ann
#19. You are alive, and you don't need to justify your existence. You can be the biggest mystery in your own story.
Miguel Ruiz
#21. You are divine, you are perfect, but as an artist, you create your own story and you have the illusion that the story is real. You live your life by justifying that story. And by justifying the story, you are wasting your life.
Miguel Ruiz
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.
Billy Graham
#25. 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
#26. An escape can become escapism before we even know it. Books are wonderful things, but you can't live in someone else's story. You have to live your own story.
Jennifer Donnelly
#27. Own your own story and then disown it. See how that feels.
Art Hochberg
#28. Take a play that you like but you think is flawed, and see if you can improve it and turn it into a musical. Then make up your own story.
Stephen Sondheim
#29. In life you must write your own story, or one will be written for you.
A.J. Garces
#30. Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story.
Greg Boyle
#31. Be the hero of your own story.
Joe Rogan
#33. You can make up your own story when you look at a photo.
Brian Selznick
#34. It takes a hell of a lot of courage to walk into your own story, but to be the hero of your own life you have to rescue yourself.
Shannon L. Alder
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. You're encouraged to pitch your own story. That way, you'll have more control over what you do.
Rob Corddry
#39. The problem is that you don't always get to write your own story. You get written into some stories, and if ask why, there isn't an answer. You don't have any control, because the forces at work are too large to confront, and sometimes too large even to understand.
Brendan Kiely
#40. You're the hero of your own story.
Dan Baker
#41. 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
#42. Whenever you're down on your luck, and when things aren't going the way you like, remember that you are the author of your own story. You can write it any way you like, with anyone you choose. And it can be a beautiful story or a sad and tragic one. You get to pick.
Sarah Jio
#43. You must make time for that which matters, for that which defines you: your passion, your progress, your pen. Take it up, and write your own story.
V.E Schwab
#44. Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.
Ava DuVernay
#45. If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.
Chris Brogan
#47. Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.
Charlotte Eriksson
#48. You remain the hero of your own story even when you become the villain of someone else's.
Anthony Marra
#49. This is the problem with language, and this is what makes silent movies fun, because the connection with them, me or the audience is not with the language. There's no question of interpretation of what we are saying it's just about feeling. You create your own story.
Michel Hazanavicius
#50. If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity.
Steve Maraboli
#52. Try everything; listen to everyone. Follow no one. You are your own story guru!
Jeff Lyons
#53. Keep being the author of your own story. Never let anyone else write it for you again.
Jennifer Donnelly
#54. 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
#55. Fall down. Make a mess. Break something occasionally. Know that your mistakes are your own unique way of getting to where you need to be. And remember that the story is never over.
Conan O'Brien
#56. One of my favourite messages about 'The Pirate Fairy' is that the story is about appreciating your own talents.
Christina Hendricks
#57. If there was anything the last year had taught her - if there was anything Caleb had taught her, the Metigen War had taught her - it was that perspective was everything.
If you wanted to understand your enemy, you must understand that they were the hero in their own story.
G.S. Jennsen
#58. You are the main character in the story of your life, but other people are the main characters of their own lives. And sometimes you can find healing just by playing a supporting role in someone else's experience.
Timothy Kurek
#59. I love bouncing my words off of someone else's, and the fact that writing a story with someone else guarantees you'll get something you never, ever would have written on your own.
David Levithan
#60. 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
#61. What we read as adults should be read, I think, with no warnings or alerts beyond, perhaps: enter at your own risk. We need to find out what fiction is, what it means, to us, an experience that is going to be unlike anyone else's experience of the story.
Neil Gaiman
#62. 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
#63. Let memories of your own hometown flow back to you as you read this fascinating story, "A Place called Gouyave," about the author's recollection of the characters, stories and the lessons learnt in his hometown during his youth on the Caribbean island of Grenada.
Collis Decoteau
#64. 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
#65. God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty - be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards!
Agatha Christie
#66. I know your story.
Got one of my own.
Yeah, I know lonely and alone.
Happen in a crowd, happen in a kiss.
But I know how to change all this.
Courtney C. Stevens
#67. It's sort of an organic process when you're adapting any book, not even just your own. You want to preserve the heart of the story and you want to preserve who the characters are, but film requires a lot of compression.
Jonathan Tropper
#68. I think you have to be ready to switch gears and go with the team as a director, as opposed to superimposing your own strict idea of the story. There are very few directors that can micromanage and still come out with something that's living and breathing on a page. Wes Anderson is one of those .
Susan Sarandon
#69. Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#70. 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
#71. That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of your own existence.
Chuck Palahniuk
#72. Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.
C.S. Lewis
#73. 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
#74. Don't be sorry, Callie,' he says with a heavy-hearted sigh. 'You have your own sad story.
Jessica Sorensen
#75. Improvise. Write your own damn story.
Eric Lange
#76. Hey, Salvo," asked Max when they had almost fallen asleep. "May I write your story?"
"Don't you dare, amico" was Salvatore's reply. "Kindly come up with your own storia, young Massimo. If you take mine, I'll have none left of my own
Nina George
#77. 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
#78. Listen carefully to what I am saying - and be wary of the shrewd advice that tells you how to get ahead in the world on your own. Giving, not getting, is the way. Generosity begets generosity. Stinginess impoverishes. NEVER WITHOUT A STORY
Eugene H. Peterson
#79. So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It's time to read your own life, because your story is the one that could set us all ablaze.
Dan B. Allender
#80. Because here's the thing about a book: when you pick up a story, you put down your own
Holly Smale
#81. 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.
Suzanne Selfors
#82. Don't expect the puppets of your mind to become the people of your story. If they are not realities in your own mind, there is no mysterious alchemy in ink and paper that will turn wooden figures into flesh and blood.
Leslie Gordon Barnard
#83. Don't let anyone tell your story. Pick up a pen and write your own.
Majid Kazmi
#84. Here in L.A., you kind of get stuck in your own little dilemmas and your own little life, and hearing a story like Pocahontas' reminds you there's a bigger world out there, and there are so many more important things in life.
Q'orianka Kilcher
#85. This business can be very frustrating but there is success story after success story of people who take the bull by the horns. Actors who are frustrated ... [should] do your own project. Find a writer, shoot a movie. It can be done,
Tony Shalhoub
#86. You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.
Brene Brown
#87. 3762
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
#88. For a story to be good it has to be in some way your own.
Me
#89. You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after.
Taylor Swift
#90. I've thought and thought, but there's no other way to give you the truth except to hide it in a story and let you find your own way inside. All stories contain a truth if you look hard enough - but it might not be a good truth.
Kirsty Logan
#91. I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder.
Jenny Nimmo
#92. It's the old story. You might be able to fool your coaches, or your teammates, or your opponents. But, you can never fool yourself in anything. I believe that the more critical you are of your own performance- the higher standards you have-the better you become at what you do.
Don Maynard
#93. Miss the audience's heart as a filmmaker, and the only wallet that gets hit will be your own. That's because the heart is always the first target in story telling.
Peter Guber
#94. Howard's enchanting Hospice obeys its own magical inner logic with excellent prose and a sadness that will split open hearts. You have in your hands a story that is inquisitive, gripping, and triumphant.
Deb Olin Unferth
#95. If you didn't like your own life, you changed it. You ran away. You did something spectacular. you didn't steal someone else's story and pretend it was yours.
Traci Chee
#96. As soon as you start to question your own intent while you're still in the process of discovering your story, you're in trouble because you've pulled out of that unconscious space that is so necessary in the beginning of the drafting process.
Laurie Foos
#97. But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.
Khaled Hosseini
#98. 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
#99. The good news is, you can love yourself because you, too, are now love. Everything else is of your own making: a lie you believe; a story from an accuser that ravages you and keeps you locked in that cage of hell.
Ted Dekker
#100. Fuck your fairytale. I just want you. I'll make my own God damn happily ever after. But you're the one who is mistaken. You'll be at the end of that story, beautiful. You either come willingly or you force me into the dark after you. It doesn't matter to me, because either way, I'll find you.
Aly Martinez
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