Life Quote by Melvyn Bragg

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets…

— Caroline B. Cooney

Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow older, even…

— Roger Angell

I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself.

— Pat Conroy

Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that…

— Judith Krantz

Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and…

— John Grogan

All writers are autobiographical to a degree and writing about the nature of their inner life. My inner life has always been a struggle…

— Francis Levy

All my stories are mainly slice-of-life and rooted to real issues and situations that I have experienced myself.

— Shoojit Sircar

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

— Monica Johnson

Most of my stories, if not all of them, have some basis in real life. That's the kind of fiction I'm most interested in.…

— Raymond Carver

What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.

— Ted Hughes

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of…

— Eudora Welty

My life has been pretty unconventional. The publishers saw a story in it, and yes, my life has been put in a book.

— Harshvardhan Rane