Fred Allen Quotes

To be human is to be in a story.

There is only one type of story in the world-your story.

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.

I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story.

What do you know about yourself? What are your stories? The ones you tell yourself, and the ones told by others. All of us begin somewhere. Though I suppose the truth is that we begin more than once; we begin many times. Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.

Everyone has a story.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

For many human beings, an interest in the past starts with themselves. That is, in part, a result of biology. Like other creatures, humans have a beginning and an ending, and in between lies their story.

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions.

What are we but our stories?

Our stories are the tellers of us.

I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on different angles, and maybe one day I will, but you know what? There's time for that because I'd like to have the whole story.

I told my whole life story in my book.

All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.

I'm glad I have a story to tell. It's unique, it's mine, and I'm blessed to have it.

People like to see their lives mythologized in some way.

People are the story they tell themselves.

In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others.

We're all stories, in the end.

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.

I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And we remain stories. But too often we allow those stories to grow banal, or cruel or unconnected to each other.We allow the stories to continue, but they no longer have a heart. They no longer sustain us.

We all - in the end - die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.

Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.

The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story.