Character Quote by Tom Hanks

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if…

— Chinua Achebe

I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I just use…

— Bill Bryson

I think that if you use something from you life in fiction, it metamorphosizes into something strange and different. Afterward it is hard to…

— Marge Piercy

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

— Terry Pratchett

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to…

— Bill Bryson

Writers are looking for a story. Using your own life as the basis for a story gives it an association with reality that's a…

— Melvyn Bragg

If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.

— Chris Brogan

Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There…

— Horacio Quiroga

I think, reading about yourself through somebody else's eyes, you're always going to have your own story.

— Greg Sestero

“If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story." "And what if your story doesn't…

— Terry Pratchett

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if…

— Chinua Achebe

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you…

— Donald Miller