Max Frisch Quotes

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

I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

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

It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.

Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.

The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

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

The further you go, what, I'm gonna wait til I'm 80? Naw, I'm tellin' my story now. I was just moved. I was moved to tell my story. You know? People write books all the time.

Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.

I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

I love telling stories; I always have, and I think women need to be more proactive about telling their own stories and sharing their points of view.

Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us.

The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together.

I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.

Anyone can write your own life story.

Personal narrative is one of the few things where people don't get caught up in fighting over esoteric rhetoric.

I just love to share my story with people as much as I can.

I realized that I've always been a storyteller.

Most writers write from their own experiences. That is where the honesty and intensity of emotions come from.

You write an autobiography because you want to tell people how you felt about a certain matter at that time.

I just wanna write about what I am living as a citizen. That's all.

All my songs are things that have happened to me.

I was always writing. I've always been attracted to words and stories, communication.