Century Quote by Satyajit Ray

The trajectory of my writing has moved further and further away from autobiography. My first stories in Confessions of a Falling Woman worked familiar…

— Debra Dean

I write about other people's experiences from time to time.

— Gabriella Wilson

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books -…

— Anatoly Rybakov

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

— William Sleator

Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me.…

— W. P. Kinsella

I used to write my own versions of famous tales, such as William Tell or Robin Hood, and illustrate them myself, too. When I…

— Peter Robinson

I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.

— Nikki Giovanni

Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn't have regular time to give to…

— Alice Munro

I write about my experiences, so a lot of times, I do write about people.

— India Arie

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I'm always drawn to stories that people don't know about, particularly when they're inside of a story that everyone knows about.

— Robert Redford

Early on... I did notice that a lot of people had the tendency to do their own story starting out. I felt like I…

— Lee Isaac Chung