Sam Keen Quotes

We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them.

You can reclaim your own narrative.

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

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.

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

Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow older, even as we try to make them come out in some other way.

The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

Our stories are the tellers of us.

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.

We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

I think no one but me has the right to write about my life as I want to write it in a particular way. I don't think any other person will be able to tell the story of my life like how I have approached it. It works best when it's written by someone who has experienced it herself.

There are definitely some stories worth telling and I think there's something to be said for telling your story.

We are the hero of our own story.

I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.

What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.

I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.

Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.

Memory narrativises itself.

Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.

We all mythologize to some degree ourselves and probably embellish. I think some of that is the desire to tell stories.

One of the most powerful things we have is to tell our story.

I'm very interested in how we take ownership of our own stories and our own lives.