Mind Quote by Farhan Akhtar

People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no…

— Patrick Ness

You can't write your life story and leave out one of the most important things that happened to you in your life. I think…

— Kris Jenner

Whenever I wrote fiction, people always seemed to think that what I wrote was true, that it was entirely autobiographical. And when I would…

— Jonathan Ames

False stories used to affect me initially. But now, I've come to understand that if false stories are created, they are also forgotten in…

— Kriti Sanon

If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.

— Sherwood Anderson

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

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

— Mark Strand

I assume the risk of allowing my fiction to enter other people's true stories. And to be fair, I let other people's stories trespass…

— John Edgar Wideman

I can handle a bad story better than anybody as long as it's true and, you know, over a course of time, I'll make…

— Donald Trump

So many people had been asking me to write an autobiography, or threatening to write my biography without any input from me, that I…

— Michael Palin

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

If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I was gonna…

— James Frey