Experience Quote by Roddy Doyle

Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a…

— Tahir Shah

Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.

— Linda Vester

...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

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same.…

— Diane Setterfield

Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a…

— Harriet Lerner

The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point…

— Robin McKinley

I recognize that memory is far from infallible though. If I feel like I can't accurately describe something, I just leave it out. I…

— Marie Calloway

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called.…

— Neil Gaiman

It happened the way I come up with any story, which is that I took elements of my own life and put them into…

— Theodora Goss

The stories I work on, especially for any length of time, do tend to become personal to me.

— Alex Tizon

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