Quotes About Story

My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

Each piece of jewellery tells a story of my life. Picking one particular piece as a favorite would be like taking a chapter out of a book.

I hope you're ready, because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to these tapes, you're one of the reasons why.

As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete.

I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.

Every life has a purpose. Share your story and you may help someone find their own.

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.

A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.

It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.

My life is a story about who God is and what He does in a human heart.

I believe there's a landscape that exists underneath everything that we can see in present-day stuff. And I think that makes life kind of a detective story.

I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.

The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself.

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

And if you have five seconds to spare, I'll tell you the story of my life".

I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.

I am working here (in Amsterdam) on my last big triptych, which will be a tremendous story, and which gives me a more intense life and exhilaration. My God, life is worth living!

We all have our own story. And we stay attached to our story. This can stop us from growing and living. You wanna make your life better? Change your story, change your life.

The woman pushed up the arms of her long-sleeved shirt and turned to the digital readout of her treadmill. A scar wound down her right forearm, jagged, like from a knife, not clean like from an operation. There was a story there.

Read them and you hear echoes of one story inside another, then echoes of another inside that.

Read them and you hear echoes of one story inside another, then echoes of another inside that. pg. 43