Friendship Quote by Sarah Dessen

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

Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.

— William Sleator

Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from experiences in…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

I've met many people who have come up to me and told me how my story has impacted them.

— Jason Collins

All of the good, weird stories I’ve written are based on things I’ve dredged out of my subconscious. That’s the real stuff. Everything else…

— Ray Bradbury

All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories…

— Patricia Reilly Giff

I don't think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border…

— Jo Beverley

My stories are of gas chambers, shootings, electrified fences, torture, scorching sun, mental abuse, and constant threat of death. But they are also stories…

— Livia Bitton-Jackson

All my life I've been interested in other people's stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them.

— William J. Clinton

I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is…

— Donna Tartt

Most of my stories have some basis in fact.

— Ken Follett

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