"I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story."

Narrative, Right

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"I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story."

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"Write about us, Robinson urged. "Tell our story. And I did it; I told our story. You hold it in your hands."

James Patterson, American Author

Narrative, Story, Memory, Writing, Life

"How the story is read is very important is it soft, is it in dry way or smooth..."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Narrative, Storytelling, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"Understand and challenge your personal narrative. Narratives become choices and actions - which become your life."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Narrative, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Inspirational

"It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say."

Arthur Herzog, American Novelist

Narrative, Eyes

"He starts telling them about our day, embellishing it so that it almost sounds fun. It's how all good travel stories are born. Nightmares spun into punch lines."

Gayle Forman, American Journalist

Narrative, Storytelling, Humor, Memory, Life

"People naturally impose a narrative story-line upon their experiences. Autobiographical writing allows a person to cast their experiences into a narrative thread and organize their thoughts based not upon conjecture but with applied reason."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Narrative, Life, Writing, Story

"The scenario where the sprawling anti-hero gets his comeuppance and the champion walks off into the sunset with his arm around the prize, usually a woman, is a pleasing one. This media personification of what a hero is all about used to be the common norm. Examining past events can confirm this convoluted outlook that sees the baddie being portrayed as some sort of evil manifestation sent to cause havoc by any means possible."

Stephen Richards, British Author

Narrative, Hero, Media, Good, Evil

"Suddenly a single shot on the extreme left rang out on the clear morning air, followed quickly by several others, and the whole line pushed rapidly forward through the brush."

John Gibbon, American Soldier

Narrative, Extreme

"Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense."

Yann Martel, Canadian Author

Narrative, Storytelling, Meaning, Art, Understanding

"Life is a book. We are writing the stories of our lives."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Narrative, Stories, Write, Book, Life

Explore more quotes by Joyce Maynard

"I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story."

Narrative, Right

"Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on."

Life, Thought, Contempt, Nothing

"For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously."

People, Years

"Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home."

Home, Nature, Court, Play

"The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art."

Art, Flaws, Will

"If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life."

Life, Girls, Letters, Man

"I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes."

Act, Writing

"The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell."

Silence,

"It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects."

Reading, Read

"Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals."

Being, Literary