Everyone has degrees of madness in them, everyone has a…

“There was a madness in my story, but it was a madness I understood.”

— Stephen King

Everyone has a story to tell. Some of us tell them so much we get better at it. Eventually we get really good...and published.

— Anonymous

To be a person is to have a story to tell.

— Isak Dinesen

“I always loved it when I had a story to tell her, because her attention was complete and felt like sunlight.”

— Robert B. Parker

We all have a story to tell

— He Is We

everybody has a story to tell

— Joe Strummer

It wasn't until my fifth or sixth book where I realized I'm trying to do the same thing in every story I tell, which…

— Kate DiCamillo

“So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one. But just the one. Don’t either of you ask me for more.…

— Khaled Hosseini

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document.

— Larry Kramer

If you don't have story to tell the public at large - you have to be able to sort of go listen.

— Linda Ronstadt

I approach stories as a private educational enterprise: I want to learn about something. I teach myself through research, reporting, and thinking, and then,…

— Susan Orlean

“Now," those Plumbago lips say, "You are going to tell me your story like you just did. Write it all down. Tell that story…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Behind the story I tell is the one I don't. Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you…

— Dorothy Allison

“Write like you are the last person on earth; like no one will ever read your story. Tell the story YOU want to read!”

— Giuseppe Bianco

“He must tell his own story.' 'But he will tell only half of it.' 'A quarter would be enough.”

— Jane Austen