David Schwimmer Quotes

...I can write my own stories and I can write myself in.

As I don't consider myself exceptional, but simply a storyteller, each of my stories is really a period of my life. Deep down I feel that criticism of my work-which is the most sincere and authentic vision of myself-is unsuitable and immodest, whether it is favorable or unfavorable.

Start telling the stories that only you can tell.

If I can tell my story, and help anybody else in the interim, then that's icing on the cake.

I guess I'm just inspired to tell stories.

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

The actual act of writing brings me such pleasure - to tell stories, to engage in cultural criticism, to reflect, to question, all of it is invigorating.

It's much more important to write than to be written about.

But I want to tell my stories, more than that, I have to in order to stay sane.

Me releasing my music, if anything, is an opportunity to show the world my stories and tell the world my stories.

You must give your own story to the world.

Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?

This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.

Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'.

All writers write about themselves, just as the old storytellers chose to tell stories that spoke to and about themselves. They call it the world, but it is themselves they portray. The world of which they write is like a mirror that reflects the inside of their hearts, often more truly than they know.

Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.

I never started writing because I wanted to write myself stuff. It was really more that I had these stories to tell, and I wanted to work with people that I respected and liked.

For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story.

I'm just always making things that are personal but hopefully also inspiring, and share not just my story, but other people's stories.

It's important for us to tell our stories.

I didn't want to be pigeonholed as an artist. I wanted to be able to have other stories to tell.

What you write chooses you.

I felt like I was a writer, and I just thought filmmaking was the best way for me to express that, because it allows me to embrace the visual world that I love. It's allows me to interact with people, to be more social than fiction or poetry, and it felt like the right way for me to tell the stories that felt pressing to me.

The most important thing to realize is that everyone is capable of telling a story.

I would spend my time telling stories or writing them.