176 Telling Your Own Story Quotes

Following is our list of telling your own story quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about importance of storytelling.

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Famous Telling Your Own Story Quotes

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today. — Robert McKee

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today. - Robert McAfee Brown

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today. — Robert McAfee Brown

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel — Studs Terkel

I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners. — Hayao Miyazaki

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. - Hannah Arendt

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact. — Robert McKee

Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do. — Dan Harmon

A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together. — Maxine Hong Kingston

Good storytelling is humanity's great connector, and it just might keep the world from eating itself. — James Genn

Whoever tells the best story wins. — John Quincy Adams

To survive, you must tell stories. - Umberto Eco

To survive, you must tell stories. — Umberto Eco

The one who tells the stories rules the world. — American Indian Proverbs

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here. — Sue Monk Kidd

The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries. — Shonda Rhimes

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . . — Harvey Cox

Short Telling Your Own Story Quotes

  • Storytelling may be what most distinguishes social movements from interest groups. — Marshall Ganz
  • Most people don't know how to tell stories. — Ted Rall
  • The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.' — Pat Conroy
  • Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories. — Laurie Anderson
  • He is a good storyteller who can turn a man's ears into eyes. — Moroccan Proverbs
  • Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form. — Jean Luc Godard

Top 10 Telling Your Own Story Quotes

Don't try to follow in my footsteps. Make your own footsteps! No one else can tell the stories that are inside of you except for you. — Karin Slaughter

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

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

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story. — Billy Graham

You can pretty much do it with anything. You can tell your life story with all the jeans you've worn, or every pair of shoes you've owned. — Sarah Gerard

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

I like to write adventure stories; that's what I tell myself. But you can't help letting your own personality, your own experiences, slip through. — Mick Farren

Go out and find your own stories.That is what I want to tell you. — Gloria Steinem

Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story. — Darren Aronofsky

Inspired by words you have to create images to tell the story, while it's much more difficult to find your own images with a film for inspiration, because someone has already done it for you. — Peter Lindbergh

Telling Your Own Story Image Quotes

Telling your own story quote Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people
Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.

Power Of Storytelling Quotes

The most powerful person in the world is the story teller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire generation that is to come. — Steve Jobs

Australian Aboriginees say that the big stories - the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life - are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting prey in the bush. — Robert Moss

A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas and comedies that shine a clean light into the dingy corners of the human psyche and society. — Robert McKee

Telling your own story quote Every person you meet has a story to tell, a lesson to teach and a dream to share.
Every person you meet has a story to tell, a lesson to teach and a dream to share.

Fantasy, in addition to being great storytelling, moves us at some unique and profound level. It has, I think, the power of mythology, or ancient dreams we have always and forever shared. In it, we find our real world and our real selves. — Lloyd Alexander

J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards. — Michael O'Brien

I was lucky enough to see the original cast of 'In the Heights.' This one blew my mind. The infusion of Latin, hip hop and rap with musical theatre, great storytelling and talent was a powerful combination to me during a time when I'd not been moved by much! — Josh Young

Telling your own story quote If you keep telling the same sad small story, you will keep living the same sad small life.
If you keep telling the same sad small story, you will keep living the same sad small life.

I do think there are always ways to create what seem like insurmountable powers, but then suddenly you find their limitations and that's the nature of comic book storytelling - always has been. — Scott Derrickson

You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling. — Irrfan Khan

I feel that the power that storytelling has to change people, to bring them together, to have that cathartic sort of experience, is something that definitely has helped my life be worthwhile and better. — Karla Souza

I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change. — Pamela Yates

Importance Of Storytelling Quotes

What’s really important is storytelling. None of it matters if it doesn’t support the story. — Wally Pfister

To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they — Ben Okri

Well, we look for sources of inspiration in pop culture in general. It's very important for us that, when it comes to storytelling, we don't look into other video games. We'd rather look into other mediums - movies, television series and books - for sources of inspiration. — Sam Lake

Telling your own story quote Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that y
Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity. — Robert Redford

I think I can work with different crews; I've worked with Bulgarian, Norwegian, Japanese, and Chinese crews. For me, the most important thing is the storytelling, and I'm really comfortable working with all kinds of languages. — Isabel Coixet

I like being in real environments. I love being in the place that it's about - these sets and locations are characters in the movies. Can you imagine Breakfast at Tiffany's shot somewhere else? It's classic. Characters are part of storytelling; they're just as important as everything else. — Antoine Fuqua

Telling your own story quote Those who tell the stories rule society.
Those who tell the stories rule society.

When you don't put your initials behind your name, and I've got tons of them, and when you talk about storytelling or love or gratitude, you're diminishing your legitimacy and importance in this world. — Brené Brown

I myself wouldn't want to read a magazine that focuses solely on a small part of the literary field or of the popular culture - better to smash the borders and look for interesting and important stuff from many different forms of storytelling. — Toni Jerrman

I think that it's important for a film that's in 3D that the filmmakers create the movie from a staging and scene planning standpoint with the dimensional space as one of their storytelling components. — Christopher Meledandri

Novels have become equally important to me as films. I consider myself a storyteller and passionately engaged in both of those disciplines. — Rebecca Miller

Beautiful Story Telling Quotes

All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort, each and all, are the orderly, beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart. — John Muir

The Things That Matter convincingly lays out Nate Berkus’s philosophy that things do matter. Our homes tell our stories, they reflect the places we’ve been and the people we’ve loved along the way—and there can be no more beautiful design for living than that. — Nate Berkus

Raw and honest is what I go for [in my style of shooting]. I am looking for your inner beauty. The outside tells a story... But together is raw honesty. — Nikki Sixx

Telling your own story quote No matter what you do, your job is to tell your story.
No matter what you do, your job is to tell your story.

Beautiful memories tell our story, and wrap themselves in ribbons of the heart. — Flavia Cacace

And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you're beautiful, so don't let other people tell you that you're not just because you don't look like the people in magazines. Or because you're not that weird ideal body image that's out there right now. — Mike Myers

funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story — Sarah Dessen

Telling your own story quote Declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an idividual has construced a coherent story in
Declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an idividual has construced a coherent story in his mind, not necessarily that the story is true.

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story. — Nelson Mandela

There is an invisible beauty all around us, each grain with a story to tell ... each of us with a story to tell from the pollen fingerprint that's upon us. — Jonathan Drori

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, 'It's a Wonderful Life' tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships. — John C. Maxwell

Storytelling Quotes

The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds. — Dalai Lama

Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. - Ibn Battuta

Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. — Ibn Battuta

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. — Leo Tolstoy

Telling your own story quote Marketing is no longer about the stuff you make, but about the stories you tell.
Marketing is no longer about the stuff you make, but about the stories you tell.

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie. — Donald Glover

That's what we do, man, we're like storytellers. We tell you stories from the streets. Whether we did it before when we was young or we heard it from one of the homies telling us a tale of what he been through. It's all in having fun and creating a movie like vibe to tell a tale from the streets. — Kurupt

Telling your own story quote Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism.
Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism.

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. — Alan Rickman

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I'm an athlete, I'm funny, I'm creative, I can tell a story, I'm likable. — Logan Paul

I think Hollywood, I think America in general, they love redemption stories. — Logan Paul

Storyteller Quotes

With things like 'Dragon Ball,' in the case of fight scenes, I'd take the panel layout across two pages when the book is opened and alter it by angling them, and making them bigger or smaller, to give movement to the panels themselves. — Akira Toriyama

Having a story is what people connect with, but the story alone doesn't allow you to achieve greatness and results. — Lewis Howes

I wanted to change up the tempo and setting of my comics in the sense of giving them some variety, for one thing. — Akira Toriyama

Telling your own story quote Great stories happen to those who can tell them.
Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

I really like the story of Bardock, Goku's father. — Akira Toriyama

To me, an influencer must embody 2 critical skills, continuous learning and storytelling. — Jay Shetty

I'm not very good at depicting the characters' psychology on the page. — Akira Toriyama

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?" — David Mamet

Our point of view, not our drawing skills or musical virtuosity or ability to tell a story. — Rick Rubin

I often speak publicly, and when I do, I also get to listen to other presenters. The most memorable are the ones that hit an emotional chord with a tight story and a punch line. No fluff. Keep it creative and concise. Greatness exists in quality, not quantity. — Lewis Howes

When you move the camera, or you do a shot like the crane down (in Shawshank) with them standing on the edge of the roof, then it's got to mean something. You've got to know why you're doing it; it's got to be for a reason within the story, and to further the story. — Roger Deakins

Visual Storytelling Quotes

In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy. — Walt Disney

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it. — Brian De Palma

Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls. — Frank Darabont

But I think we're also just talking about the literacy of the audience. The visual literacy of the audience. They've seen so many images now, especially here in the States. There's so much to look at, to watch. So the visual storytelling literacy is harder to impress. — Keanu Reeves

I'm a visual filmmaker so the camera is a big part of my storytelling tool and it's something that I really rely on to tell a scene or create the suspense that I need and create the emotion of a scene or a sequence. — James Wan

I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style. — Jack Kirby

Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen. — Robert Rodriguez

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point. — Brian De Palma

Pixar has outdone itself in visual magic and vivid storytelling. — Peter Travers

I wanted wherever possible to lean into the comic form and do things in the story telling that could only be done in comics and which pay homage to the many strands of comic and visual storytelling tradition. — Arvind Ethan David

Good Storytelling Quotes

Marketing is about telling good stories. Social media marketing is about getting your customers to tell them for you. — Ryan Deiss

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead. — Graham Greene

A good tale never tires in the telling. — Scottish Proverbs

Some of Eminem's rap songs kind of have the teenage love songs like the fifties love songs. It's kind of like domestic drama set to music. He is really good storyteller. — Bruce Dickinson

Good storytelling doesn't have to be in the form of the classics. It doesn't have to be revered by everybody. In fact, to me, the best storytelling is not universally loved by every single person. I think you can water down the ethicacy of the work, itself. — Bryan Cranston

Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. ...Tap into it. — Peter Guber

Good storytelling for me is not so much technical expertise, which I know is applauded often; it's actually freshness of approach. It does mean you sometimes stumble and fall and make a horrible mess of things in seeking that freshness, but you should always keep trying to do that. — Danny Boyle

I remember one review of The Office Christmas Special that compared it unfavourably to Dickens. What? You're saying I'm not as good as the greatest storyteller ever. Boo! Boo! I think I can live with that. — Ricky Gervais

My brand is good storytelling. I really want [my company] Hillman Grad Productions to be associated with great stories, interesting characters; things that are three-dimensional and feel honest. — Lena Waithe

A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling. — Margaret Wise Brown

Storytell Quotes

People can see themselves in a story much easier than they can see themselves in a hypothetical situation that a brand might present to them. — Lewis Howes

The best story wins. Not the best idea, or the right idea, or the most rational idea. Just whoever tells a story that catches people’s attention and gets them to nod their heads is the one who tends to be rewarded. — Morgan Housel

Fairy tales are more than true. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

With enemies, it's easier to just have them be straight-up bad guys so they can just get beaten up. — Akira Toriyama

The key in telling stories that people relate to is, not surprisingly, vulnerability and authenticity. — Lewis Howes

If you're doing gags, I think it's important to have characters who are as strong-willed and impactful as possible. — Akira Toriyama

When I got into the second half of 'Dragon Ball,' I had already become more interested in thinking up the story then in drawing the pictures. Then I started to not place much emphasis on the pictures. — Akira Toriyama

Chase the story behind the stock, not the money on the table. Money will make you rich, but the story will make you wealthy. — Vijay Kedia

I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death. — Leslie Marmon Silko

Like the greats, you want to make your own story yourself, and not be a copy of another. — Kylian Mbappe

Telling Your Story Quotes

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song. — Gloria Naylor

If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are. — Madeleine L'Engle

What if all those terrible stories you tell yourself about yourself aren’t true? What if the limits you self-impose on your capabilities are a lie? Consider the possibility. Then modify your behavior accordingly. — Rich Roll

If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them even more stories. — Albert Einstein

It's important that we share our experiences with other people. Your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else. When you tell your story, you free yourself and give other people permission to acknowledge their own story — Iyanla Vanzant

No matter what you think your values are, your actions tell the real story. What we do with our spare time shows what we value. — Jay Shetty

Your home should tell the story of who you are, and be a collection of what you love brought together under one roof. — Nate Berkus

Humans will always tell you the story. Dogs can only tell you the truth. Trust your instincts and listen your dog. — Cesar Millan

When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth. — Rumi

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it. — Jordan Belfort

Writing Stories Quotes

Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter. - African Proverbs

Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter. — African Proverbs

Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story. — Paul Kagame

If someone writes a great story, people praise the author, not the pen. People don't say, 'Oh what an incredible pen...where can I get a pen like this so I can write great stories?' Well, I am just a pen in the hands of the Lord. He is the author. All praise should go to him. — Keith Green

You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born. — Anne Lamott

It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power. — Raymond Carver

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks. — Maeve Binchy

First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice. — Octavia Butler

There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place. — Tim Cahill

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it. - Edgar Allan Poe

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it. — Edgar Allan Poe

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom. — Isabel Allende

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More Telling Your Own Story Quotes

You gotta make your own way. You gotta find a way. You gotta get it done. It's hard. It's tough. That's what I tell my students every day in class. I've been very fortunate. Some people might call me a hardhead, but I'm not going to let other people dictate to me who I should be or the stories I should tell. That doesn't register with me. — Spike Lee

Before you know it you'll be my age telling your own granddaughter the story of your life and you wanna make it an interesting one, don't you? You wanna be able to tell her some adventures, some excitements, some something. How you live your life, little one, is a gift for those who come after you, a kind of inheritance. — Cristina Garcia

I believe your home tells a story about who you are and who you aspire to be. We represent ourselves through the things we own. I don't believe in trends. I believe in collecting things that you connect with. We should surround ourselves with things we care about, that have meaning. — Nate Berkus

You are your own stories and therefore free to imagine and experience what it means to be human... And although you don't have complete control over the narrative - no author does, I can tell you - you could nevertheless create it. — Toni Morrison

Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story ... The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt. — Sayings

A lot of times I don't know if I trust the director to tell that film's story. Or I think it's inappropriate for a male director to tell a female story, or a white director to tell a black story. Everyone walks away from a movie differently, because you're relating it to your own life. — Kiersey Clemons

When a friend needs consoling, do not give in to the temptation of telling stories similar to theirs of disaster or bereavement. It is something people often do to show empathy but nothing is more tiresome than other people's problems when you want to focus on your own. Listening is by far the best form of consolation. — Giles Andreae

Love is a story we tell with another person. It's cocreation through conarration. When you hit bumps in the road and challenges, you write a new chapter in your story together. Love is the constant act of revising and retelling your own story in real time. You don't do it by yourself. You do it with someone else. The only way you do that is to talk to each other and create a shared narrative. — Bruce Feiler

Dear Friend,Please be patient with me; I need to grieve in my own way and in my own time.Please don't take away my grief or try to fix my pain. The best thing you can do is listen to me and let me cry on your shoulder. Don't be afraid to cry with me. Your tears will tell me how much you care.Please forgive me if I seem insensitive to your problems. I feel depleted and drained, like an empty vessel, with nothing left to give.Please let me express my feelings and talk about my memories. Feel free to share your own stories of my loved one with me. I need to hear them.Please understand why I must turn a deaf ear to criticism or tired clich — Margaret Brownley

I think acting, oftentimes it's not about lines, it's about spaces in between lines and expressions on people's faces and their relationships. You can tell your own story, or a story that you're interested in, even if the lines don't necessarily point you in that direction. — Peter Capaldi

I don't think an actor needs to necessarily go through his things to do his job. I think it's way more important to imagine. And then, when you're imagining, your experiences, your images and your own personal things will show up, but you keep imagining. You don't get stuck in your own personal things, otherwise you are telling your story in every character, and that's not interesting for anybody. — Javier Bardem

I was interested in the ways we can write biography. When you're first starting to write about your own life it feels so shapeless because you don't know how to make your own story cohesive. How do I pluck a story out of the entirety of what it means to be alive. It occurred to me recently that when you're telling a story about your own life, rather than taking a chunk, you're kinda like lifting a thread from a loom. — Sarah Gerard

What I'm starting to really grapple with, as someone who likes to tell stories, is that humans more than any other animal species seem open and willing to control, assert dominance, and behave cruelly. That's a whole kind of new nightmare to really have to face about your own species. That we are, in some respects, cannibalistic, in that we are willing to destroy ourselves. That's really something for me to be exploring over the long haul. — Karyn Kusama

I think a lot of things are written from experience, but then you become a writer and talk about other people's experience and you tell stories. I mean, you can't just tell your own story all the time. — Eddie Vedder

First of all, I had the desire for that format [silent movie], and then when I was talking to people, I felt that people needed justification. Why are you doing a silent movie? Is it just for your own pleasure? I felt it was not enough for them so I realized I have to choose the subject that will make things easier for them and to tell the story of a silent actor makes sense for doing a silent movie. — Michel Hazanavicius

Everything has changed, but the process of telling a story has not changed. It's like cavemen sitting around the fire; somebody's going to tell the story. Somebody is drawing on the wall. You're communicating. You're trying to learn and teach at the same time. You're your own student and you're your own teacher, but the process is of the communicating. — Stanley Kubrick

Don't worry about trying to develop a style. Style is what you can't help doing. If you write enough, you draw enough, you'll have a style, whether you want it or not. Don't worry about whether you're "commercial". Tell your own stories, draw your own pictures. Let other people follow you. — Neil Gaiman

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

As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor. The people that I truly admire do this because they love telling stories and they love the make-believe of the moment and not so much the gratification afterwards. — Eric Balfour

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

I don't want to tell what the songs are about for me, because then people can't decide for themselves, which is why I write; it's for you to find your own meaning in. For me it's my story, for someone else it's theirs; if I tell exactly what it means, then it's only my story. — Brian Fallon

Every story you tell is your own story. — Joseph Campbell

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting. — Louise Bourgeois

Isn't it boring ... how people always want to tell you their own stories instead of listening to yours? I suppose that's why psychiatrists are better than friends; the paid listener doesn't interrupt with his own experiences. — Helen Van Slyke

It's important not to base your ambition on anybody else's history, but to figure out how best to use your own particular personality and understanding of yourself to help tell other people's stories. — Harrison Ford

Beginning authors often get in their own way … They forget that they’ve been telling stories since they could talk. … The important thing to remember is, you know how to do this. You’ve been doing this your whole life. — Cynthia Leitich Smith

I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life. — Stephen Daldry

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

The best time to tell your story is when you have to tell your story. When it's not really a choice. But then, when you get that first, messy, complicated version down, you have to read it over and be very tough on yourself and ask, 'Well what's the story here?' If you're lucky enough to have someone you trust looking over your shoulder, he or she can help you if [you] lack perspective on your own story. — Jeannette Walls

When you are telling your story, hold your own ink pen. Don't let anybody else tell your story. — Tracy Martin

In writing practice, there's no direction. You enter your own mind and follow it where it takes you. We have a great need to connect with our own mind and our own true self. And all of us have a story to tell. — Natalie Goldberg

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. — Anne Lamott

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

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