Douglas Kennedy Quotes

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

What makes writing a memoir difficult is harder to quantify. Is it learning to know when you're ready to talk about something? Is it seeing the structure in a lumpen mass of fact? Is it finding out what you were really like as other people saw you? Yes to each.

My songs are my stories... good, bad, ugly, beautiful.

If you want to know anything about me, read my books - it's all there.

It's not just that everyone has a story. It's that everyone has a thousand stories. Everyone is infinite.

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

When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.

It's kind of hard to tell your life story and state all facts and it still be sweet.

You write an autobiography because you want to tell people how you felt about a certain matter at that time.

I'm super excited to have people hear little stories about my life, the lives of my friends, people I know.

I want to help people to get to know my story and really tell them in detail what I've been through.

For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness.

Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.

Everything, as you well know . . . cannot always be sweetness and light.

We can only connect the dots we collect, which makes everything you write about you... your connections are the thread that you weave into the cloth that becomes the story that only you can tell.

Each story, good and bad, short or long-from that trip to the mall when you saw Santa, to a long, bad illness-they are all a line or a paragraph in our own life manuscript. Two thirds of the way through, even, and it all won't necessarily make sense, but at the end there'll be a beautiful whole, where every sentence of every chapter fits.

He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.

We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.

My history defines who I am.

In The Tale of Despereaux, there is a lot of darkness, a lot of despair. There's also a lot of light, redemption, hope. There's forgiveness, there's friendship, there's love. But the world in all of its potential craziness is also there.

Every man is a hero of his own story.

Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference?

Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.