Don't discount your life story, because every life is a success story.
'Puffball' is a love story... no, it's a life story.
If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the protagonist is transformed. He's a jerk at the beginn...
I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'
Life is a story. You and I are telling stories; they may suck, but we are telling stories. And we tell stories about the things that we want. So you go through your bank account, and those are things you have told stories about.
Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.
People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I'm going to live up to every inch of this story.' Sometimes you realize the story isn't fulfilling you and in fact you're not living the life that you're give...
That story you're scared to share --- that story has the power to change both your life and the lives of others.
The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories, and tell stories for an audience and everybody.
Life is a story within a story.
The stories of wine lords who trade wine on intimidation or food critics who trade free meals for reviews... those are the stories of my life. I am telling the stories of my life in a true way.
...but what, in this life, is more personal than books?
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
I told my whole life story in my book.
I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.
My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment.
It's a story you can break down and analyze and find analogies and lessons in it, and then it becomes a story about life. But you can also experience it whole, and then it's not a story about life. Then it is life.
I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.
And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no "after", in the "ever after" of a Witch there is no "happily"; in the story of a Witch, there is no afterword. Of that part that is beyond the life story, beyond the story of the life, there is-al...
I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.
