If you don't like my story,write your own

If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novel, find a book you do like. Life is too short to be miserable. If you do like my novels, I commend your good taste.

Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.

Respect your history, listen to your ancestors, tell the truth, and write your own story—or someone else will write it and get it all wrong.

Write the kind of story you like best — write the story you want to read.

When we own our stories, we avoid being trapped as characters in stories someone else is telling.

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

The best advice is not to write what you know, it’s to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best — write the story you want to read. The same principle applies to your life and your career: Whenever you’re at a loss for what move to make next, just ask yourself, “What would make a better story?

When writing the story of your life, don’t let anyone else hold the pen.

Don't try to tailor yourself to somebody else's story because you might just deprive the world of the beautiful story that would have been you.

I loathe writing autobiographical material because if it's dull no-one should have to read it anyway, and if it's interesting I should be using it for a story.

You need a story to displace a story.