When you understand that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be. - Chuck Palahniuk
Feelings have more to do with the story you tell yourself than the facts. - Marilyn Suttle
The story you live is the ripple you leave. - Michele Jennae
Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either. - Meg Cabot
The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it. - Jordan Belfort
If you’re honest with yourself as a writer, trying to tell the best story you can, your story will be an honest one. And your values will come out, no matter how hard you try to disguise them. - Joe Clifford Faust
Watch the little ones around you; most have a story you haven’t heard of. - Sanjeet Veen
Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you are not having to fight. - Traci Lea LaRussa
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. - Douglas Pagels
Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later. - Patricia C. Wrede
If you own this story you get to write the ending. - Brené Brown
The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know. - Harry Truman
Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell. - Tahereh Mafi
Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you are not having to fight. ― - Traci Lea LaRussa
Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you're dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell it, and don't trust anyone who tries to sway you otherwise. - Richelle E. Goodrich
Enemies are people who's story you haven't heard, or who's face you haven't seen. - Irene Butter
Whatever story you create in your life, you deserve your own Karma be it good or bad…. - - - Cocoy McCoy
The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real. - Todd Strasser