Jay Asher Quotes

Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority.

Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of life.

But how could you live and have no story to tell?

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

To tell my story, to touch lives.

There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.

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

Your life should be a story you are excited to tell.

If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?

This may be a little bit of a provocative thing to say, but the memoirist doesn't owe the reader anything other than a good story and the inclining of the mind in the direction of memory. Of course, the memoirist is not allowed to make things up. But the really skilled memoirist knows what to leave in and what to leave out to serve the story. In autobiography you can't do that.

Stories are like genies...They can carry us into and though our sorrows. Sometimes they burn, sometimes they dance, sometimes they weep, sometimes they sing. Like genies, everyone has one. Like genies, sometimes we forget that we do. Our stories can set us free...When we set them free.

There was no way to take the story back, folding it neatly into the place I'd kept it all this time. No matter what else happened, from here on out, I would always remember Wes, because with this telling, he'd become part of that story, of my story, too.

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

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.

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

I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.

Sometimes I'll say, wow, that's going be a great story, and I get killed.

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.

People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.

I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself.

It occurred to me that everyone’s story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.

If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?

I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my 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.

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.