I hope these quotes inspire you to write and share your own stories, both fiction and nonfiction!
15 Inspiring Quotes about Writing + Sharing Our Stories
After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. ―Philip Pullman
If a story is in you, it has to come out. ―William Faulkner
Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving. ―Madeleine L’Engle
Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter. ―Neil Gaiman
I write to find strength. I write to light the way through the darkness for others. I write because one day I will be gone, but what I believed and felt will live on. ―Shannon L. Alder
We tell ourselves stories in order to live. ―Joan Didion
Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can’t remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story. ―Tim O’Brien
All the truth in the world is held in stories. ―Patrick Rothfuss
We owe it to each other to tell stories. ―Neil Gaiman
You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering. ―Anne Rice
If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive. ―Brené Brown
I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these stories… water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. ―Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can’t remember who we are or why we’re here. ―Sue Monk Kidd
A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is. ―Flannery O’Connor
I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do. ―Brené Brown
