Bases Quote by Harvey Pekar

I know people could tell incredible stories. People have been in concentration camps, or women being raped, or a man going to war and…

— Agnes Varda

We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth.…

— Howie Mandel

My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation,…

— Chris Abani

My story is just my story, and it's not nearly as traumatic as some.

— Paul Dini

The big things in the average person's life are the romances that they have - and then the destruction and loss of them. Parents,…

— Loudon Wainwright III

I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing…

— Neil Gaiman

I'm very connected to the story, the history, and the trauma people experience.

— Chath Piersath

I really believe in people putting stories out there that contain the most difficult moments because nothing to me is more lonely making than…

— Leslie Jamison

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

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

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

— Wally Lamb

For many years now I have listened to the stories of people with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses as their counselor. From them I…

— Rachel Naomi Remen