During his brilliant campaign, President Obama wove a powerful narrative about the American we all hope for. And that hope was grounded… — Cynthia P. Schneider Copy Share Image
Bernard Harris is a great example of the American success story. In Dream Walker he describes how he is trying to pass… — Craig R. Barrett Copy Share Image
What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“My wish has always been to write my own story, to create a life that’s worth writing about. But is a story… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real… — Nikki Reed Copy Share Image
You know the way you tell your life story to a friend? I just told mine to a piano. — Freya Ridings Copy Share Image
“Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it.… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Alphabet Juice is the book Roy Blount was born to write, which considering his prodigious talent, is saying a lot. Did you… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
Anytime you share life stories with other people, you know, you are acknowledging their humanity and kind of accessing some things about… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
“People tailor their life stories for particular audiences. The recipient or audience for a story may crucially influence the stories form. Audiences… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If it is true ... that no one has a life worth thinking about whose life story cannot be told, does it… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to hand someone your whole life story to play, and you've never really met that person. — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
There's nothing more liberating about starting with something that is not written. You pretty much create the history of that character and… — IronE Singleton Copy Share Image
An autobiography is a life story. It starts when you're born and continues until the end. — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
“From the chronology of our time perception we keep garnering fetching and enticing instants of our life story, still abounding in our… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be… — Wally Schirra Copy Share Image
In the face of events that threaten to overwhelm our lives, storytelling gives us a way of reclaiming ourselves and reaffirming our… — Victoria Alexander Copy Share Image
“When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it. — Frank Serpico Copy Share Image
“A shaman and a writer each serve as their communities’ seers by engaging in extraordinary acts of conscientious study of the past… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
