Ability Quote by Guy Claxton

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the…

— Adam Johnson

A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But…

— Amy Poehler

Writers are looking for a story. Using your own life as the basis for a story gives it an association with reality that's a…

— Melvyn Bragg

“Stories are the preferred way human beings learn and define our values. In our stories we find heroes whose larger than life examples make…

— Douglas M. Beaumont

Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks like a…

— Isabel Allende

In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.

— Brian Boyd

“Your life is not A story But rather an assortment of small ones Some endings are happy Some, sad Others - ironic In some…

— Joseph DiFrancesco

We tell specific stories about ourselves to ourselves and we're all the heroes of our own lives. But you live through certain experiences with…

— James Franco

I'm curious by individuals that embrace half a story so they can justify how incomplete they feel about their own self worth.

— Dane Cook

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same.…

— Diane Setterfield

But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story...

— David Clement-Davies

Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the single, simple…

— John Updike