Elude Quote by Toni Morrison

You don't choose your themes; they choose you. The meaning of your stories will rise out of your deepest longings, often out of longings…

— Marion Dane Bauer

In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you…

— Geoff Ryman

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the…

— Adam Johnson

“Everyone tells a story about who they are in their own head. That story defines you, dictating all your actions and all your mistakes.…

— Mia Sheridan

I think there's a natural link between the fact that our self is a story that we make up and that we're drawn to…

— Mohsin Hamid

“Your life is your story, so make choices that will write it the way you want it to be written”

— Brooke Stonex

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

— Chris Brogan

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

— A.J. Garces

Never settle for being a character in someone else's story when you are meant to be the author of your own.

— Pacifiersucker

When we tell our own story, we teach the values that our choices reveal, not as abstract principals, but as our lived experience. We…

— Marshall Ganz

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself. Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little,…

— Octavia Butler

The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is…

— Vikram Seth