Ready Quote by Jodi Picoult

“A long time ago someone told me that a story will tell itself, when it's ready.”

— Jodi Picoult

“We decide what story to tell ourselves. Or whether we will tell one at all.”

— Ryan Holiday

“No matter how much planning you do the story will always tell itself the way it wants to be told.”

— Stoo Goff

“Every story has a time to be told”

— Haruki Murakami

“You think you know how a story begins, or how it's going to turn out, especially when it's your own. You don't.”

— Edan Lepucki

“Life is a story, waiting to be told.”

— Jadi Campbell

“In the stories we tell ourselves, we tell ourselves.”

— Michael Martone

“If you're writing a story and YOU can't wait to see how it all pans out, then you are doing something right.”

— Giuseppe Bianco

“How do you know where a story begins?”

— Carolee Dean

“Life is a story just waiting to be told.”

— Emily-Jane Hills Orford

“Our eventual fate will be the sum of the stories we told ourselves long enough.”

— Crystal Woods

“In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it happened.…

— Betty Smith