"Life itself is a story."
—Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-born writer
"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about."
—Benjamin Franklin, American statesman and inventor
"The reward for writing is discovering something about myself I never knew before."
—Steve Martin, American actor and writer
Every person's life—including yours—unfolds like a story. Autobiographical stories are stories we tell about ourselves and our experiences. They explore an important period, experience, or relationship in your life. When you tell a friend about what you did during the weekend or describe a funny thing that happened to you, you are engaging in autobiographical narration—telling a story from your own life. An autobiographical narrative can be as simple as a description of a recent car trip or as complex as the entire story of a person's life.
