“The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: Life is a story about me.”
Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)
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Amulya Malladi (1974) Indian writer
On not caring about what other people think about her writing in “An Interview with Amulya Malladi” http://jaggerylit.com/an-interview-with-amulya-malladi/ in Jaggery
“That story was the only thing I have ever done which cost me absolutely no pains at all.”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien book Leaf by Niggle
About "Leaf by Niggle", in a letter to Stanley Unwin (18 March 1945)
Context: That story was the only thing I have ever done which cost me absolutely no pains at all. Usually I compose only with great difficulty and endless rewriting. I woke up one day (more than 2 years ago) with that odd thing virtually complete in my head. It took only a few hours to get down, and then copy out.
“Go on, she urged. Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
Variant: Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.
Source: Gatsby Girls
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
volume I, chapter II: "Autobiography", page 27 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=45&itemID=F1452.1&viewtype=image <br class="br">The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887)
Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) Chinese empress
As attributed in The last empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the birth of modern China, Hannah Pakula, 2009, Simon and Schuster, 391, 1439148937, 2010-06-28 http://books.google.com/books?id=4ZpVntUTZfkC&pg=PA39, <br class="br">This is redacted from the account of Princess Der Ling, Two Years in the Forbidden City (1911), p. 356 http://books.google.com/books?id=KdUMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA356