Face Quote by Dimple Kapadia

The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're not darkly or as deeply personal…

— Eugene Mirman

The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.

— John Barth

All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing.

— Karen Lord

“In order for us to live comfortably with ourselves while living on unjust terms with others, we have to tell ourselves a story that…

— Tobias Wolff

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you…

— John Eldredge

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

— David Leavitt

Even if the experience in my stories is not autobiographical and the actual plot is not autobiographical, the emotion is always somewhat autobiographical. I…

— Katie Wech

This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven’t.…

— Jandy Nelson

Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much…

— Edwidge Danticat

For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it,…

— Aimee Mann

I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story.

— Regina Spektor

The story of my life is profoundly unclear. It is a rock-and-roll story and, at the same time, a story of my walk with…

— Scott Stapp