Originality is not writing the story that has never been told, but writing the stories only you can tell.
– M Kirin
Related Quotes:
- Writing is more than just a method to tell stories. It’s a way to find healing, and to healing others. – M Kirin
- What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. – Richie Norton
- Love is infinite. Grief can lead to love. Love can lead to grief. Grief is a love story told backward just as love is a grief story told backward. – Bridget Asher
- The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story. – Anita Diamant
- All great stories began as shitty first drafts.There are no exceptions to this. – M Kirin
- You’re never as good a writer as you think you are, and you’re never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing. – Don Roff
- You’re writing someone’s -˜future’ favorite book. – M Kirin
- 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
- Description is the color in the canvas of your story. – M Kirin
- Stop beating yourself up over all the days you didn’t work on your story. Focus on what you can do today.Sit down, and write. – M Kirin
- Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults. – Tony Reinke
- People need stories…we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books. – Jennifer Chiaverini
- Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates. – Christy Hall
- Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. -“ From the book jacket – Harold Bloom
- …it’s not the stories – it’s the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told … – John Geddes
- Tell me what you want, and I’ll tell you who you think you are. Tell me what you fear, and I’ll tell you who you really are. – Brunonia Barry
- Tell yourself the stories you need to tell. But don’t be fooled by them. Never live your own lies. – David Gaider
- Once upon a time, a king came to earth to tell stories, and the stories contained the mystery of eternal life. – Jared C Wilson
- We all tell our stories the way we want to. And sometimes those stories have nothing to do with reality. – Danielle Ganek
- Any story told is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it. – Catherynne M Valente
- The African continent has so many stories to tell, it’s about time they are told, by them – not us. – Akilnathan Logeswaran
- I travel for the great stories now ready tell, and those waiting to be told. – Carew Papritz
- I like writing multiple stories at once. It’s fun to change my mindset and get transformed into a different story when I feel like it. – BA Gabrielle
- Saul’s vitals were not human, but familiar:he never told me he was from another world:I never told him I was from his future. – Joe Haldeman
- Writing nonfiction means I tell people’s stories for them, not because they’re special but because we all are. – Jo Deurbrouck
- The greatest story ever told is, in fact, the greatest story ever sold – Dan Brown
- Write about us,- Robinson urged. -œTell our story.- And I did it; I told our story. You hold it in your hands. – James Patterson
- There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told. – David Byrne
- Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light. – Kate DiCamillo
- Her body was rounded like earth. Stories. Breath. . . . Her eyes have been painted closed. I understand. To tell a story you must travel inward. – Terry Tempest Williams
- Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. – WH Auden
- Admirations are never paid in any way, try to make yourself of what you admire, and it will pay you with originality. – Auliq Ice
- The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing… – Alan Dapre
- Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing… the rest will follow. – Jane Yolen
- Just tell yourself a story that’ll satisfy you and pretend he told it. – Catherynne M Valente
- There’s 3 sides to every story. Time will tell who the real ??????? is despite what you were told. – April Mae Monterrosa
- A long time ago someone told me that a story will tell itself, when it’s ready. – Jodi Picoult
- The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well. – Criss Jami
- Don’t forget – no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell. – Charles de Lint
- When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story – Tushar Upreti