Held Quote by Anne Michaels

“You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which…

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

“My own life is a fairy tale story—one that has already been written by the hands of God.”

— Tessa Emily Hall

“The constrained lives of his characters made me wonder how my own existence might appear in his hands.”

— Ian McEwan

“For how could he live with himself, if indeed he did live at all, knowing that his life was so inextricably bound to others,…

— Daniel Wallace

“Life belonged to other people, and his only claim to it was his power to take it from them. Nor would he recognize hope…

— Steven Erikson

“In life you must write your own story, or one will be written for you.”

— A.J. Garces

“He believed that our life-stories are ours to construct as we wish,within or even against the constraints posed by the real world...”

— Coetze, J.M

“He was doing what a man does when left with nothing. He was telling himself his own life story.”

— Mitch Albom

“The most original thing you possess in your life is your true self.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“But I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell. Of course, you pretend…

— John Green

“In the end, every man's life is but a tale told to him that's lived it, and to him alone.”

— Tim Willocks

“You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours”

— Ingrid Bengis