Tamron Hall Quotes

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

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.

I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

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.

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.

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.

No matter what writers say, most stories are about ourselves. The facts might change a little, but not much.

We're all building our narratives in our heads.

I don't think you're ever ready to read your life back to yourself and try to make it entertaining for others.

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

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

'M Train' is as close to knowing what I'm like as anything. I don't know exactly what the book is about. All and nothing, I suppose.

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

I tell people not to write too soon about their lives. Writing about yourself too young is loaded with psychological complexities.

In my new book, 'Binge,' I share essays about everything I've never told my viewers - touching on the best and worst days of my life, some hilarious, some embarrassing, but all extremely personal.

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.