Individual Story Quotes

The Olympics is not really about the sport, it's about the story behind the person. You keep the sport relatively simple to understand - let the fans understand that a takedown is 1 point, a turn is 2, a pin and the match is over. Keep it simple, and keep the story on the individual.

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different.

Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are to be found. The strange journeys we undertake on our earthly pilgrimage, the joy and suffering we taste or confer, the chance events that leave us together or apart, what a complex trace they leave: so personal as to be almost incommunicable, so fugitive as to be almost irrecoverable.

Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.

I'm constantly not on the right side of history. I sympathize with the soldiers in the enemy's camp. For example in WWII, we know the Nazis and the Japanese were wrong. But I sympathize with the individual story of a soldier who was drafted into that.

The story of one person is the story of all of humanity.

I think, we can only write very personal matters through our experience. When I named my first novel about my son "A Personal Matter," I believe I knew the most important thing: there is not any personal matter; we must find the link between ourselves, our "personal matter," and society.

Everybody has their own story; everybody has their own journey.

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.

I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.

The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.

Everyone has their own career, their own fate, and everyone writes their own story.

I want to be the last girl in the world with a story like mine.

We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.

We want to tell unique, individual, discrete stories with a unique and discrete individual point of view.