Chris Cleave Quotes

Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.

I don't think I've ever really pursued telling my story, but I think things come to you at the right time.

So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to have them heard.

We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.

Our stories are the tellers of us.

Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.

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.

I felt like I had experienced a lot of things in the first chapter of my life, and I wanted it to inspire and motivate people, so I just started writing.

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

The notion of fate and destiny is a very Greek concept. Working in the theater you do think a lot about that, because as a storyteller you do think, 'At what point was this always going to happen and what part have I got a hand in being able to change things?'

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

All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is real; it's all part of the story we tell. But here's the thing: it's our goddamned story!

If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending... But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one.

Be who you are and I'll be who I am. I refuse to take sides, because everybody has their story.

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.

You can use your story, or your story can use you.

How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but — mainly — to ourselves.

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I'm going to do something called life and times.

Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives?

Somethings were meant to be and somethings were just meant to be good stories

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

We tell the stories that we want to tell.

I really believe that we all have the ability to come out of our story. But you have to tell your story first in order to come out of it.

I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories.