I didn’t find my story; it found me, as autobiography always does: finds you out in your deepest most private places.
– Kelly Cherry
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- The story of his great-grandfather . . . was his own story, too. – Kelly Cherry
- Either a municipal bog is a private place or it isn’t. If it is a private place in which to shit, how is it not a private place in which to fellate? – Stephen Fry
- Does this mean that in some places I’m American and in some places I’m African American and in other places, by logical extension, I’m nobody? – Roberto Bolao
- Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won’t help you. – Jeanette Winterson
- There are places we fear, places we dream, places whose exiles we became and never learned it until, sometimes, too late. – Thomas Pynchon
- What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. – Richie Norton
- Where a mediocre mind finds adversity, a great mind finds great opportunity. – Debasish Mridha
- Just as like finds like, love finds love. Embrace it. Be open and giving. Accept love with kindness, grace, and spirit. – Michael Holbrook
- All art is an expression and extension of ourselves.. Art finds its deepest value when it is the authentic expression of a deep human experience. – Erwin Raphael McManus
- Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. – Stephen Richards
- What stays with you longest and deepest? Of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains? – Walt Whitman
- Troubles often decides your deepest friends,but deepest friend will never decide to put you into trouble. – Bradley B Dalina
- I always like the story behind the story more than the story itself. – AD Posey
- People who always want to be at convenient places won’t make a change at controversial places. – Israelmore Ayivor
- My developing sense was that the foundation of a story is an emotional foundation. If a story does not work emotionally, it does not work at all. – Yann Martel
- The point, I decided, wasn’t to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote. – Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
- I had a few people ask me if I might one day write my own autobiography. I just told them, ‘It’s already being written; through my books. – TS Wieland
- A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction. – Oscar Wilde
- Advice is autobiography. – JR Rim
- Anyone with an autobiography is almost definitely an evil piece of shit. – Brian K Vaughan
- One day someone is going to read my autobiography and say -œWow, what a horror novel – MF Moonzajer
- One of the greatest gifts in this world is the ability to make others smile. – The Unauthorized Autobiography of Jonathan Fisher – JEB Spredemann
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. – WH Auden
- An autobiography is inherently incomplete unless the last page is written on the eve of the author’s demise. – Dan Makaon
- Information is like water. It finds its way to all the wrong places. – Dexter Hawk
- Love finds you in the strangest places, and hope clings to us in the nooks and crannies we never think to look. – Shelly Crane
- Because of His love, God always provides us with the perfect sketch of our destiny and true purpose for us to apply the finishing lines. – Cherry MPIO
- Your life should always come with hot fudge, whipped cream, and a cherry on top. – AD Posey
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- The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. – Ursula K Le Guin
- It is easy to arrange the words in a story born out of a dream; for a story without a dream, a story itself is not enough. – Dejan Stojanovic
- The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. – Mark Twain
- When you write a story you’re telling yourself the story. When you rewrite your main job is taking out all the things that are NOT the story. – Stephen King
- The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story. – Anita Diamant
- The greatest story every(any)one can tell is the story of their life. Just don’t let the climax of your story be unrealized dreams. – Unarine Ramaru
- Beauty is always found in the profound and deepest actions of a person who does things from the heart not from the shallowness of materialism. – Paul Isaacs
- I have travel to the places I have been because, I had a vivid imagination of the places. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn’t here. – Edna Ferber
- Places are people as well as rocks, trees and buildings. Places are moments in time. – AJ Dalton
- going to have an industrial society you must have places that will look terrible. Other places you set aside-”to say, -˜This is the way it was.’ – John McPhee