Top 100 Reality Story Quotes
#1. The human heart uses the tools of reality to create elements of story, and the human heart responds to climax in the structure of story, this means that climax, or point of decision, could very well be something that exists in the universe.
Donald Miller
#2. But liturgy is meant to be an interruption. It disrupts our reality and refocuses it on God. It reshapes our perceptions and lives with new rhythms, new holy days, a whole new story.
Shane Claiborne
#3. Despite our challenges, hope lies in the reality that our story does not end here.
Charles F. Glassman
#4. It would have been a great story if Brooks had went out there and scored 21 points, ... That would have been great theater. But the reality of that is very difficult, as we know, in this league for any QB when defense is playing good. And the Ravens played well.
Herman Edwards
#5. I rode my bike home and did the one thing that always helped when things weren't going well. I read. Books were my refuge. Getting lost in a solid adventure story was the best way I knew of to turn off reality.
D.J. MacHale
#6. Why did everyone like that story so much when it wasn't true? Why was everyone so eager to believe it? Was it because, in real life, ever after's generally stink?
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#7. There are filmmakers like me in different parts of the world that have a story they want to tell, and it's a story that comes out of a certain historical reality within their own life. Then you get committed all the way and however long it takes, stay very committed.
Haile Gerima
#8. Just because they're a story doesn't mean they're not real.
Heather Bouwman
#9. Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.
Red Smith
#10. Storytelling is the distinctly human implement designed to synthesize our purposeful interaction with reality.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#11. Here is the challenge, I believe, for the Christian artist, in whatever sphere: to tell the story of the new world so that people can taste it and want it, even while acknowledging the reality of the desert in which we presently live.
N. T. Wright
#12. Story affirms that not everything in the universe can or must be explained propositionally; the loose ends of story aren't always neatly tied together, because neither are the loose ends of our lives. "Life can bear only so much reality," says poet and pastor Calvin Miller.
Sarah Arthur
#14. The reckoning is how we walk into our story; the rumble is where we own it. The goal of the rumble is to get honest about the stories we're making up about our struggles, to revisit, challenge, and reality-check these narratives.
Brene Brown
#15. Do you think you're not 'ready' to start that big story idea/project you've been thinking about forever?
Jump in. Write anyway. The only way to make the impossible a reality is to take a leap of faith.
M. Kirin
#16. We do not see things as they are, nor do we even see them as we are, but only as we believe our story to have been.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#17. Love must face reality, if it is to survive
Jumping in the Puddles of Life
Loretta Livingstone
#18. Life is travelled at a pace one decides for themselves
Chandra Sekhar
#19. What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.
Rabih Alameddine
#20. Reality is always the story of a past, and what I love about the past is - it's over.
Byron Katie
#21. The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.
Colleen Atwood
#22. Who wasn't either bored or troubled with their own story and only too happy to leap into someone else's? It further confirmed her motto: Reality sucks. Make-believe rocks.
T. Rae Mitchell
#23. Thierry Mugler is about the power of glamour and walking straight into the future. He's been a god for successive generations in the fashion industry. He fused pop and high fashion, told a story in style and combined fantasy with reality.
Nicola Formichetti
#24. During his brilliant campaign, President Obama wove a powerful narrative about the American we all hope for. And that hope was grounded in a very powerful reality: President Obama's own inspiring life story.
Cynthia P. Schneider
#25. She was a wonderful teenage girl who had the miraculous power to cure herself from any wound, either physical or mental. With her own salty tears, she would cleanse her raw wounds. And her breaths were given, as though not to breathe but, rather, to fan her sores.
Khadija Rupa
#26. All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality, the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
Arthur Christopher Benson
#27. He clung to the story as to a vow whose abandonment might bring down on his head all kinds of grief and misfortune. He felt very alone, on an interminable day full of evil omens, and the story, though resistant to some of his intentions, was at least a testimony to reality and coherence
Jose Maria Merino
#28. Transcending reality by exploring it one story at a time...
Barbara Cutrera
#29. The worst stories usually make you think: 'but nobody had to die'.
These are called true stories.
Moonshine Noire
#30. Garth on making his stories feel real "Things like armour, clothes and other small details are very important in building up the reality of the story... I do spend quite a lot of time on things like clothing, armour, weapons and try and make them feel real.
Garth Nix
#31. Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference.
Penn Jillette
#32. What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.
Carolyn Heilbrun
#33. Basically all the religions,sciences and powers of the world boil down to a simple truth. The Best Story Teller will win in the end!
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#34. To me, it's about good work, a good story, and tastefully done. There's so many stigmas - oh, you're on the small screen or you do films or you do reality. It's about the project and not the medium on which it's delivered. It's the story you tell, period.
Keshia Knight Pulliam
#35. The desire to move into a bigger house, to avoid living AIDS daily, and a dream to be accepted by a community and school, became possible and a reality with a movie about my life, The Ryan White Story.
Ryan White
#36. This is going to make such a great story: How I nursed a pirate back to health and my love saved him," Miss Ohio said with a contented sigh. "And then we can have our own reality show about our relationship."
- "Beauty Queens
Libba Bray
#37. It's about love and loss, it struck me as a meaningful and compelling story, and the shifts in reality offered up strong visual possibilities.
Michael Almereyda
#38. I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a story no matter how bizarre it is, [or] going out and getting into the weirdness of reality and doing a little time on the Proud Highway.
Hunter S. Thompson
#39. It was a fictional story, but like any good fiction, without the need to adjust or conceal the truth, it actually might be
the greatest expression of truth.
Jacqueline Simon Gunn
#40. But life isn't neat the way a story is. And if you try to pretend it is, then you just make yourself unhappy, or screw yourself over.
Dexter Palmer
#41. A theory of everything is a palliative story just like reality was in The Matrix. Something we tell ourselves in order to armor ourselves from the frightening reality of how mediocre and pathetic we really are. While
James McGirk
#42. The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.
Todd Strasser
#43. I like to work late because I don't like to work early - and I have to work sometime.
Rainbow Rowell
#44. I almost never let reality get in the way of a good story.
Elizabeth Bard
#45. And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.
Maximilian Schell
#46. Everyone wants their love story just the way we watch on movies and when little does it happen in reality they say we are being dramatic
D.N. Joshi
#47. The effect your readers want is for what they read to trigger in them the sights and sounds and smells of what's happening in the story. They don't want approximations, they don't want a report, they want to experience the story's reality.
Ray Rhamey
#48. As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.
Jeff Bridges
#49. I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.
Steve Toltz
#50. Nobody wants to be a part of your story. Everybody wants you to elaborate on their fantasies.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#51. I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is no quite so simple.
Keith Briffa
#52. As for biblical or religious theory, I don't ever want to fight about the details of the story, I want to live the reality of the message.
Steve Maraboli
#53. MYTH: Beautiful Writing Trumps All
REALITY: Storytelling Trumps Beautiful Writing, Every Time
Lisa Cron
#54. In a fairy tale, the story can't be altered. The prince and princess will never have a fight. You'll never hear the queen raise her voice. No on ever gets sick; no one ever gets hurt. Maybe love is only safe in places where it can't change.
Jodi Picoult
#55. I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.
John D. MacDonald
#56. Aiden had filled a part of my heart that I hadn't known was empty. And for that I'd be forever grateful. Beneath the pain was the reality of the end of whatever it was we'd shared. I missed him, and his absence was profound. He was everywhere, yet he was nowhere at all.
Lilly Wilde
#57. As you begin to look deeply into the mystery of your own evolution, in place of good and evil you will find only stories, finished or unfinished.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#58. Scientific naturalism is a story that reduces reality to physical particles and impersonal laws, [and] portrays life as a meaningless competition among organisms that exist only to survive and reproduce.
Philip Johnson
#59. The emphasis in meditation is very much on undistracted awareness: not thinking about things, not analyzing, not getting lost in the story, but just seeing the nature of what is happening in the mind. Careful, accurate observation of the moment's reality is the key to the whole process.
Joseph Goldstein
#60. Until you know someone's full story, it is just a guess to determine whether s/he is pride full or humble, out of touch with reality or grounded.
Assegid Habtewold
#61. If a story seems too random, or perhaps too brilliant, for a "madman" to have conceived of it himself, then consider that the "author" might be reality and the "madman" just the reader. After all, only reality can escape the limits of our imagination.
Rivka Galchen
#62. I think human beings exist in a social world. I write realistic fiction, and so it isn't that surprising that the social realities of their existence would be part of the story.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#63. There was also no character arc. Change only comes when we face the difficulty of reality head-on. Fantasy changes nothing, which is why, once we're done fantasizing, it feels like a bankrupt story.
Donald Miller
#64. Even a killer needs to talk, to tell his life story, so bad he'll come and sit beside a grave or a rotting body and just blab, blab, blab at it for hours. Until he makes sense. Until the killer can convince himself with the story of his new reality. The reality that--he was right.
Chuck Palahniuk
#65. When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.
Paul Auster
#66. Stories and novels consist of three parts: narration, which moves the story from point A to point B and finally to point Z; description, which creates a sensory reality for the reader; and dialogue, which brings characters to life through their speech.
Stephen King
#67. Everyone had a story he believed was worthy of a best-seller; for me, reality was rarely interesting enough to take the place of fiction.
Ben Mezrich
#68. In reality, that was going to be very messy from an antitrust standpoint and meet a lot of resistance from the top management at Hasbro. That was a whole different story.
Harold L. Vogel
#69. I tell ya! The road to success is an endless battle for you and me.
Steven Jackson
#70. It should never be your job to pick up the pieces of a broken man or to housebreak one. There are far better things you can do with your time.
Alice Walsh
#71. I wanted to be the one who eased the pain for him, to give him what he wanted. The sad reality of the story was I would never be that girl. And he would never be that man.
Lucia Franco
#72. In the society of illusion, reality must manifest itself. The story songs of Joel Rafael are that manifestation ... the essence of minstrel.
John Trudell
#73. Don't despair for story's future or turn curmudgeonly over the rise of video games or reality TV. The way we experience story will evolve, but as storytelling animals, we will no more give it up than start walking on all fours.
Jonathan Gottschall
#74. The story I tell is so incomplete, five kids in the house and no food to eat.
Too $hort
#75. The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.
Eric Ries
#76. I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.
Sara Sheridan
#77. No matter what your reality looks like, you're the girl I'm in love with today, and the same girl I'll be in love with tomorrow and all the days after that. Not just because of who you are, but because of who you were.
It's all part of your story, Em. And I want to be a part of your story, too.
Myra McEntire
#78. I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.
Paul Haggis
#79. All stories are born out of illusion, but that doesn't mean they're not worth telling.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#80. Do you know the feeling you get when you are awakened in the middle of a dream? The dream story is still real and full of color, but the waking world is rushing back into your mind. And for a moment both worlds are true, and you cannot quite tell them apart.
Shannon Hale
#81. It's not so much about writing the story of Christmas itself, as ingenious as it is. In reality, it's much more about writing the story of Christmas into the story of life so that it will become the story of life.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#82. He gets away with it because he's strong.'
'This is the story of mankind.'
'I thought you were going to be a priest at one point.'
'Yes. But then I read the newspaper.
Christopher Buehlman
#83. Writing a story bends time and warps reality. It gives the writer prior knowledge in the reader's future...
RO Smit
#84. Living is not an art, but to write of life is. Life is a series of accidents and anticlimaxes, misremembered and misunderstood, with lessons only dimly learned. Life is disorganized, lacks shape, lacks story.
Christopher Priest
#85. 'Castaways' was a play on what if a reality show like 'Survivor' was unknowingly set on an island inhabited by a sub-human race of creatures? Readers have often asked me to consider turning the short story into a full-length novel. So I did.
Brian Keene
#86. You're cramming a few chance data points into a story that has nothing to do with reality. You need to take a giant step back. Take a deep breath. You're way off the reservation." Nobody
Lev Grossman
#87. Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.
Eazy-E
#88. Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived.
Byron Katie
#89. Liberation of mind is realising that we don't need to buy any story at all. It's realising that before our confused thought, there actually is Reality. We can see it. All we have to do it to fully engage in this moment as it has come to be.
Steve Hagen
#90. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.
Roger Zelazny
#91. I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless.
Michael Frayn
#92. Emotional honesty transcends reality; it's what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true.
Greg Rucka
#93. Life and stories are alike in one way: They are full of hollows. The king and queen have no children: They have a child hollow. The girl has a wicked stepmother: She has a mother hollow. In a story, a baby comes along to fill the child hollow. But in life, the hollows continue empty.
Franny Billingsley
#94. Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways.
Richard King
#95. On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#96. As far as I'm concerned, story is everything. It is why we get up in the morning and how we choose who to take to bed at night. Story is the thread that weaves together the very fabric of reality.
J.K. Norry
#97. Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.
Anne Enright
#98. For me, it doesn't matter whether it's a comedy, a Western or horror. As long as you've got a good story to tell, the genre almost doesn't matter. As an actor playing the role, it's all rooted in reality.
Patrick Wilson
#99. She's shaped her image of the world around someone else's fantasy ... Because it's easier. It's so much easier to say, 'This is a story, and there are heroes and villains, and there's an ending, and when we get there the book will close and we'll all live happily ever after.
Mira Grant
#100. It seems natural to surround my fictional world with animals because my reality is full of them. When I'm sitting there conceiving a story, they just pop up.
Sara Gruen
