Self-Narrative Quotes

Narratives are not fixed. We change our narratives for ourselves and we change them not necessarily deliberately. In other words, some people do, some people will constantly reconstruct their biography for external purposes, it's a very interesting political ploy.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

Every story you tell is your own story.

I didn't really want to write something about my life story. I've kind of had a pretty smooth-sailing journey.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have.

One of these days when I'm finished coaching at Alabama, I'll write an authorized book because there's only one expert on my life, and guess who that is... me. And there won't be any misinformation. There won't be any false statements. There won't be any hearsay. There won't be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.

I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I have written one myself.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

To a certain degree, I think both self-narrativizing and selective memory are essential survival skills.

Who you are moment to moment is just a story.

All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works.

When people ask me to describe my journey in Hindi cinema post-'Barfi!' I actually don't know what to say.

We can carry the burden of hurt throughout our lives. We can make the hurt that we have experienced the defining aspect of our stories of ourselves. That means that somebody else gets to say who we are, somebody else gets to decide how we feel, and somebody else gets to decide how we see the world. Forgiveness not only frees us from the burden of someone else's opinion of us, but it allows us the opportunity to really write a story of ourselves that we can love, enjoy, relish, and live into.

Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don't know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

Be the hero of your own story.

Whenever I see an autobiography for sale in the book store i just flip to the about the author section. I'm like, "Done, next!"

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.

Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.

His life was a book of his own writing, one orderly page after another.

Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.

I tell a story, and therefore I exist.