Own Stories Quotes

39 quotes by 38 authors

I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more in… — Sufjan Stevens
Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts. — Marion Dane Bauer
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… — Madeleine L'Engle
Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not villains of our own stories. — Teju Cole
We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own… — Bill Moyers
We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history… — Erykah Badu
When writers stop believing in their own stories, readers tend to sense it. — Tracy Kidder
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… — Toni Morrison
I write my own stories. I like telling stories to little children. I think the good thing about stories is they carry you to another… — Georgie Henley
I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories. — Nigel Kneale
Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words will always prevent… — Elena Ferrante
I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories. — Josef Koudelka
America is an unlikely place - a country built on defiance of the odds; on a belief in the impossible. And I remind you of… — Barack Obama
It's extremely important for women to be writing their own stories and giving them to people to really be emotionally impacted by — Rosario Dawson
I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something… — Shigeru Miyamoto
Reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out, and storytelling is what links both: it is the soul of literacy. The most… — Pam Allyn
I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make… — Patricia Reilly Giff
I do have strong convictions and political opinions, but I don't think it's necessary to imbue my photographic work with them. I use photography as… — Michael Kenna
I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read… — Daniel Clowes
I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories. — Washington Irving

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