“But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.”

“The story is always better than your ability to write it.”

Robin McKinley (1952) American fantasy writer

“Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.”

Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer

“Holy crap! Your story was so long I forgot the beginning! - Ichigo Kurosaki”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

“I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

“Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.”

Chuck Palahniuk (1962) American novelist, essayist

“You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.”

Jane Hirshfield (1953) Poet

“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. You are connected to your child and to all those who touch your lives. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”

Sophia Loren (1934) Italian actress

“My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have to potential to be the comic stories the next.”

Nora Ephron (1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter

“A legend, Kludd, is a story that you begin to feel in your gizzard and then over time it becomes true in your heart. And perhaps makes you become a better owl.”

Kathryn Lasky (1944) American children's writer