Ability Quote by Mariel Hemingway

If a story is in you, it has to come out.

— William Faulkner

There is no story that is you or that leads to you. Every story leads away from you.

— Byron Katie

If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.

— Terry Pratchett

If you're telling a story, and somebody is going to come out badly, it better be you.

— Rob Lowe

Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a…

— Tahir Shah

The way I write, I need to tell the true story. I can't just make a story up. So I have to let the…

— Giveon

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

All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once…

— Vera Nazarian

Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.

— Christopher Bram

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

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

— David Antin

You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are…

— Michael Koryta