Storytelling Quote by Megan McCafferty Download Open image ““The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves make us who we are.”” — Megan McCafferty ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Storytelling
“everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“What we put in and leave out of our stories tells us something about who we are.” — Eddie S. Glaude Jr Copy Share Image
“A high school teacher once told me that identity is half what we tell ourselves and half what we tell other people about ourselves. But the missing piece he didn’t mention—the piece that holds so much weight, especially in the minds of young women and girls—is the stories that other people tell us about ourselves. Those narratives become the ones… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share
“Each of us shapes our stories so they make sense of who we think we are.” — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“The self is simply this subject; it is the story we tell ourselves about our experiences.” — Lehrer Jonah Copy Share Image
“Without stories, how do we know who we are? How can we imagine who we can be?” — Kate Cann Copy Share Image
“You are a confabulatory creature by nature. You are always explaining to yourself the motivations for your actions and the causes to the effects… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
“We are the stories we tell about ourselves. But when those stories are lies, we are the most surprised of all.” — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
As much as I don't care about those things, I think it's human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant. — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
“I almost can’t believe I’m going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most” — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
I believe that what we get out of life is what we've set ourselves up to get, so there's no such thing as an… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
When you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it. — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
“Don't talk to strangers. Don't do drugs. Don't smoke. Don't drink and drive. Don't have sex. Wear a condom. Wear sunblock. Wear a seat… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
You, yes, you, linger inside my heart The same you who stopped us before we could start. — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
I used to think that I wouldn't change anything from my past, because doing so would inevitably affect who I am now. But considering… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
I know it makes sense for me and him to just break up now and just live our seperate lives and not have to… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
“Anyway, it's a pretty good story," I said. "You have to admit." "Yeah?" He crumpled up the Kleenex, having dispatched the solitary tear. "You… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative. — Tim Vine Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. — John Berger Copy Share Image
Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“Societies everywhere have a tendency to construct a genealogically useful past for themselves in which desirable versions of their history are favored and unwanted… — Tudor Parfitt Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of endless mystery in storytelling - I like to know where the mythology's going; I like to get there in… — Eric Kripke Copy Share Image
“We take creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life.” — Danielle Ganek Copy Share Image
