Figures Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.

— Margaret Atwood

What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a little untrue,…

— Gail Caldwell

You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real…

— David Shore

There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.

— Barbara Kingsolver

People talk about you, then when confronting they get sudden memory loss and aparently forget what they said.

— Anonymous

Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.

— Ernest Hemingway

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Once you realize that your past is just a story¦it no longer has any power over you.

— Robert Tew

You never have to look over your shoulder when you tell the truth. You never have to remember the details, because they are what…

— Charlie Sheen

I think when people begin to tell their stories, everything changes, because not only are you legitimised in the telling of your story and…

— Eve Ensler

I just want people to not assume their story is over, especially when maybe they have somebody in their life that they've given up…

— Bart Millard

Once you realize your past is just a story, it no longer has any power over you.

— Robert Tew