Life Stories Quotes
You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have.
Having room to run and having just the space to use your imagination and create stories out of everyday life, I think that had a lot to do with me wanting write. And write songs
I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.
If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose there is no angle?
But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.
I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story.
Don't judge me by my books. They're not my voices, and they were never my stories to tell.
Freedom is found within, in the shape of our laughter and the way we love, in the truths that we live by and the stories we become
The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do.
Why do bad things happen to good people?''Because it makes a good story.
Your imagination can take you to the best and worst places. It is a ship on a sea of dreams and it's up to you to steer it.
Looking back together, telling our stories to one another, we learn how to be on our own.
Everybody’s got sad stories.” Devon’s voice was as ungiving as stone. “And everyone thinks they’re so very special and broken because of them.
According to Hannah, real life just happens, whereas stories make sense. When you put real life in print, she says, you show it up for the pointless mess it really is.
Life consists of books. All experiences are stories to be told and must be written.
Sometimes we tell our stories and sometimes our stories tell us.
Anecdotes don't make good stories. Dig down so far that what finally comes out is not even what you thought it was about.
Even Aristotle, master of pure reason, said: 'The friend of wisdom is also a friend of myth.
People still have the same story, the one where they get born and they do stuff and they die, but now the story means something different to what it meant before.
They've all got stories, Jess thought. I need to know them. Best of all, he could know them. He could learn anything here. It felt like limitless possibilities.
