That's actually happened?' Ruth asked. 'Everything's…

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

The Bible is true, and some of it actually happened.

— Marcus Borg

I just feel much more secure about whatever I write if I stand with one foot in reality - meaning if the stories I…

— Sasa Stanisic

I think we all know what actually happened. It was a good old boy network, and there was no such thing as a good…

— Wally Funk

I've been in so many writing workshops where someone hands in a story, and when the other writers in the workshop are giving feedback,…

— Jesmyn Ward

History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.

— Henry L. Stimson

“Sometimes there are still days when I wake up and wonder if this has actually happened, or if it’s been one long dream.”

— Michelle Madow

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

— Mark Twain

Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.

— Antony Beevor

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

— Anonymous

And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.

— Mario Puzo

I try to write about things that actually happened so that I know it's real before I put it down on paper.

— John Prine

I'd say the real turn in my career came when I did the Dolce & Gabbana International Ad Campaign playing Madonna's son, which was…

— Max Schneider

It's a metaphor. But that actually happened. -White Goodman

— Dodgeball

In history there's what's written down and there's what actually happened.

— Steven Knight