Autobiography Quote by Julian Barnes

“Sometimes the hardest story to tell is your own”

— Jennifer Varnadore

“My own story, anyone's own story, is always told against me, even what I myself am writing here, because I have no heroic history…

— Sebastian Barry

“My story - my own personal story - ended before my writing began. Storytelling has only ever been a way of filling in the…

— Diane Setterfield

“I learned that everyone or every place has a story, it just takes a writer to find it and make it ready to be…

— Michael K. Brantley

“No matter how hard you try to create a story that's completely fictional, parts of your own experience are bound to surface.”

— Hiroshi Ishizaki

“The self requires a story.”

— André Gide

“In life you must write your own story, or one will be written for you.”

— A.J. Garces

“But I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell. Of course, you pretend…

— John Green

“I discovered my own story and I fell in love with it.”

— Ricky Martin

“My story isn't sweet and harmonious, like invented stories. It tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all…

— Herman Hesse

“My own life is a fairy tale story—one that has already been written by the hands of God.”

— Tessa Emily Hall

“We all have our own stories. The story you tell about yourself, even if you only tell it to yourself, drives your actions and…

— Mani S. Sivasubramanian