People Quote by Kazuo Ishiguro

All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they…

— Norman MacCaig

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.

— Ernest Gaines

We tell specific stories about ourselves to ourselves and we're all the heroes of our own lives. But you live through certain experiences with…

— James Franco

Some of the best things that have happened in my stories have happened seemingly of their own accord. The writer becomes a listener, just…

— Will Hobbs

I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look…

— Desmond Dekker

Everyone's always telling themselves stories about their lives, writers or not.

— Sheila Heti

...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect…

— Rabih Alameddine

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 real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past,…

— Donald Davis

I do not think writers or anybody would sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they…

— Doris Lessing

There is only the actuality of what happens in life. The rest is just a story, no matter who's telling it.

— Gary Crowley

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