Impression Quote by Joan Didion

We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we…

— Joan Didion

We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder…

— Joan Didion

This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words.

— Christina Baldwin

The phantasmagoria, the actual experience that we try to understand and organize through narrative, varies from place to place. No single narrative serves the…

— Sheena Iyengar

“We all fictionalize ourselves in the process of creating a story out of the raw materials of our life. For some it is a…

— Neil McCormick

We are shaped by stories from the first moments of life, and even before. Stories tell us who we are, why we are here,…

— Daniel Taylor

A story is how we construct our experiences.

— Doris Lessing

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

— Joan Didion

“we compose our life in stories we tell ourselves”

— john j geddes

“The ability to see our lives as stories and share those stories with others is at the core of what it means to be…

— John Capecci and Timothy Cage

“We come to know ourselves only through stories. We listen to the stories of others, we inherit the stories of those who came before,…

— Camilla Gibb

I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative that makes…

— Sam Keen