Top 100 Story Is True Quotes
#1. Half of this story is true and the other half might very well have happened.
William Pene Du Bois
#2. This story is true. Of course, there are many lies therein and most of it did not happen, but it's all true.
In that sense it is deeply religious, perhaps even biblical.
Craig Ferguson
#3. Not every story is true," he said. "Not every rumor is false.
Ridley Pearson
#4. Only half the story is true. The rest is necessary.
John Yau
#5. Every story is true and a lie. The true part of this one is: Love and the memory of love can't be drowned. The lie part is that this is a good thing.
Leigh Allison Wilson
#6. But if the biblical story is true, the kind of certainty proper to a human being will be one which rests on the fidelity of God, not upon the competence of the human knower. It will be a kind of certainty which is inseparable from gratitude and trust.
Lesslie Newbigin
#7. As soon as we ask whether or not a story is true in the present moment, we empower ourselves to re-frame it.
Sharon Salzberg
#8. I make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it's just not real. That's what a parable is. It takes things that we all know are real, and it takes life events that actually happen, and it weaves them into a fiction that allows truth to actually be embedded.
William P. Young
#9. The idea that the story is true is more important than being able to prove that it's true.
Ben Mezrich
#10. since nothing is more predictable than the media's parroting of its own fictions and the terror of each competitor that it will be scooped by the others, whether or not the story is true, because
John Le Carre
#11. Not every story is true. And sometimes the things that were wicked become the things that save us, and the things that were good doom us to misery and pain.
Kelly Barnhill
#12. in the story no one smiles,no lesson is learned.
the narrator can not change any one's heart
the story is agate to another story,which opens onto a story after that.
i made it up but the story is true.
Laura Apol
#14. No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway,
#15. This story is true and happened once in the future long ago.
Ali Smith
#16. I learned that the story has no beginning, and no story has an end. That the story is all muddle, all middle. That the story is never true, but that the lie is indeed a child of silence. By
Ursula K. Le Guin
#17. Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself.
Harriet Lerner
#18. I think any time you've got a story based on a true story, no matter how accurate it is, obviously it's still fictitious.
John Lee Hancock
#19. It has been said by many that a true love story has no happy ending simply because the truest of loves never ends. It is immortal. This is the kind of love that lives forever in your heart as a feeling you will always feel, a place you can always return to.
Michele L. Rivera
#20. This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them. And if a story set in an infinite number of possible worlds is true in one of them, then it must be true in all of them. So maybe, it's not as fictional as we think.
Neil Gaiman
#21. True storytellers write not because they can but because they have to. There is something they want to say about the world that can only be said in a story.
John Freeman
#22. Marco Polo has been kind of buried under this cloud of rather banal historical dust, when the true story is so much more exciting.
John Fusco
#23. No, that part's not true! That's a joke-lie. I'm not going to lie to you in this story because I want you to know that the rest of it is true.
Tina Fey
#24. You realize you've never walked in another person's shoes. Never have. Never will. The same is true in adoption. There are three sets of adoption shoes sitting at the end of the boardwalk. The adoptees ... the birth parents' ... and the adoptive parents'. Each is unique and each has a story to tell.
Sherrie Eldridge
#25. Prayer is a spontaneous feeling. Remember this story when you pray. Let your prayer be a spontaneous phenomenon. If even your prayer cannot be spontaneous, then what will be? If even with God you have to be ready-made, then where will you be authentic and true and natural? Say
Osho
#26. There is no form to this story because it is true, or at least as close to true as I have been able to make it.
Kevin Brockmeier
#27. The true story ... is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see.
Sarah Dessen
#28. '50/50' is a comedy. I shouldn't say it's a buddy comedy because it's not farcical, and it's based on a true story, but it's viewing that experience through a very truthful lens of humour.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#29. 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 story makes you feel inside.
Tahir Shah
#30. It's true that writing can give new forms to concepts that existed previously with far less clarity, but in terms of the other half of a story's story - the way a story is received and interpreted and used - the audience plays a part in that too.
Helen Oyeyemi
#31. But tonight, this is what I can give you. I can offer you the vault of heaven, the firmament of the stars in the sky, and me
Deirdre Riordan Hall
#32. I like when they say a movie is inspired by a true story. That's kind of silly. "Hey, Mitch, did you hear that story about that lady who drove her car into the lake with her kids and they all drowned?" "Yeah, I did, and you know what - that inspires me to write a movie about a gorilla!"
Mitch Hedberg
#33. You have to write the story that's at the front of your head. There is no point in trying to write for the market; it won't ring true.
Jojo Moyes
#34. There is a French version of the story, and a true one.
Stephen Clarke
#35. When I reflect on my story I seem to exist only as the one who came, the one who witnessed, the one who longed to be gone: a being without substance, a ghost beside the true body of Cruso. Is that the fate of all storytellers?
J.M. Coetzee
#36. Infatuation is easy to cure, if that is his problem. A little dandelion root, a sprig of hare-foot plant, a shaving of nutmeg, and a drop of moonrose nectar mixed into a cup of chamomile. True love is another story, I'm afraid. There is no cure for true love.
Carrie Anne Noble
#37. I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.
John Green
#38. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.
Vladimir Nabokov
#39. She wishes that it were true, all of it. That it were more than just a story. That is was their story.
Jennifer E. Smith
#40. It is said that love does not last, that it is just a momentary spell cast upon your soul by some higher power, or a small trick of the mind. If this were all true, there would be no story to tell.
Natalie Valdes
#41. Until Jesus Christ is the obsession of your heart, you'll always be looking to mere men to meet your needs that only Him can fill. Only when you make Jesus Christ your first love,will you be ready for a love story that reflects His glory.
Leslie Ludy
#42. I've come to realize one thing, that stories are always bigger than we are, they happen to us and we are their protagonists without realizing it, but in the stories we live, we aren't the true protagonists, the true protagonist is the story itself.
Antonio Tabucchi
#43. The true marriage movie involving in-laws and children is a story about how marriage is directly affected by external characters who impact the central relationship in various ways.
Jeanine Basinger
#44. In my view, the gospels are true, not historically, but theologically, or, as I would argue, prophetically! What we have is, the Messiah's history written in advance in story form.
Eli Of Kittim
#45. Actually, a myth is a story that is not just not true, but it's a story that is especially true. And I think the myth of Jesus is especially true.
Jay Parini
#46. 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
#47. The telling of a good story, especially one that is real and true, is always exciting.
Aeriel Miranda
#48. But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It's fun to give these people voices.
Thomas Perry
#49. What I have told you is not completely true. You should beware, for often in this story, my words will be spoken out of bitterness, out of hate. The scream of the poor is not always just; but if you do not listen to it, then you will never understand justice.
Erik Christian Haugaard
#50. Now that I'm experiencing motherhood, I'm ready to write the next chapter of my family story. Of course a few jaded folks in the press corps will claim I ran out of money or just want to kiss John Corbett again. One of these things is true.
Nia Vardalos
#51. During his public life, Barack Obama has often referred to his biracial background and itinerant childhood and has said, 'In no other country on Earth is my story even possible.' True.
Monica Crowley
#52. The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
Irving Stone
#53. True education is a kind of never ending story - a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#54. Any story you've heard of my behavior is probably true.
David Caruso
#55. It's true that this is not a book you stick on a shelf. This is a story you will instead always carry in your heart.
Terry Goodkind
#56. FREQUENTLY, PHYSICAL ILLNESSES are the body's response to permanent disregard of its vital functions. One of our most vital functions is an ability to listen to the true story of our own lives.
Alice Miller
#57. Then he launches himself at me with a roar, and I let him take his shot. It's weak, like he is. Like all bullies really are. That's why they're bullies. Because they're insecure idiots who try to make themselves feel better.
Erin Watt
#58. Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Ernest Hemingway,
#59. The writing is clean. I really wouldn't have changed a word. Most of it is true, too, except that the hero quits drinking and the girl grows up. On the last page, the couple gets married, which is a nice way for a love story to end.
Melissa Bank
#60. I love horror movies and I love being scared, but I don't like them, if they're not based on a true story. It's like knowing how the sausage is made.
Olivia Munn
#61. A child's own story is a dream, but a good story is a dream that is true for more than one child.
Margaret Wise Brown
#62. The old adage that 'there are two sides to every story' is not true. There is a story for every storyteller.
Kenneth Eade
#63. All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing.
Karen Lord
#64. Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale of any life would be both utterly boring and utterly unbelievable.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#65. What matters most, is not how my end happens, or if it happens now. What I care about in this instant, is that she knows how much I love her - that I lived long enough to have her love me back.
Emm Cole
#66. Composition is interesting because, in a sense, you always have to let it go. Unless you're a true composer/performer, you're always sending a PDF and then someone else makes it. It's like instructions for a short story, faxed to every English student who's studying it.
Nico Muhly
#67. You see, he was to become the first man I fell in love with. Only, falling in love doesn't always mean rainbows and butterflies. This is the true story of my life and how love changed everything!
Brenda Novak
#68. There is no story that is not true, [ ... ] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.
Chinua Achebe
#69. I read almost exclusively nonfiction when I read, because even though it's harder to find a great true story, when you find one, the idea that it actually happened is immensely powerful.That's what moves me the most.
Robert Kurson
#70. [R]ed hair is slow to lay back once it's got its dandruff up, and her bitchy mood required further opportunity to express itself.
Tom Robbins
#71. Listen to other people tell their story, but don't believe them. You know that it's just a story that is only true for them, but listen because the communication can be wonderful.
Don Miguel Ruiz
#72. Although they are often called cabarets, and occasionally there is even strip-dancing involved, you shouldn't associate them with merrymaking or extravaganza...
Lola Smirnova
#73. No moral to this story, you will be saying, and I am afraid it is true.
Joan Aiken
#74. the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.
Julia Quinn
#75. It was one of those rare occasions when the true story is even more strange and exciting than the wild rumours.
J.K. Rowling
#76. All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities, the note concludes.
This is surely true. Yet the vivacity with which he embraces ruin is unexampled, in my experience.
Donald Barthelme
#77. Storytelling is easy. All that's needed is a beginning, a middle and an end, and about 53,000 words. Not true. There is nothing more difficult than inventing a story.
Dennis Macaraeg
#78. A myth is a story that tells the truth, whether or not the story is factually true.
Chuck Turner
#79. When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed.
Orson Scott Card
#81. I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing up in India is all around you.And I think one of the gifts it gave me as a writer was this early knowledge that stories are not true.
Salman Rushdie
#82. And, of course, one of the great true facts of the world is this: for every old-timer who dies, there's a new old-timer coming along. And a good story never dies; it is always passed down.
Stephen King
#83. My intent, here, is to tell our story in a dramatically truthful way. While the facts may be less than accurate, please understand that the emotion is true. The intent is true. And, dramatically speaking, intention is everything.
Garth Stein
#84. I asked her what a true story was because I thought that all stories were made up. She said a true story was called fact, and a made-up story was called ficton. Auntie May said a made-up story is a bit like telling lies, only the people who read them knew that already and so it didn't matter
Rebecca Lloyd
#85. My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.
John Green
#86. Every story has a true name. I wish this story's name could be different, but nothing will change it. This story is The Book of You.
Claire Kendal
#87. A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner
Michael Chabon
#88. Like any true story, the end of the affair is messy and unsatisfactory:
Neil Gaiman
#89. A film that is a true work of art transcends theatre and heartwarmingly changes lives.
A.D. Posey
#90. Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It's a story about a young woman who was given a precious opportunity to work her way up in the world. It's a story about resiliency, and sacrifice, and perseverance. And you're damn right it's a true story.
Wendy Davis
#91. A myth is a story that is "more than true." Many stories are true because one person, somewhere, at some time, lived it. It is based on fact. But a myth is more than true because it is lived by all of us, at some level. It's a story that connects and speaks to us all.
Linda Seger
#92. A bit ridiculous, but true. The moral of this story is to separate men and women when analyzing number of sexual organs.
Des MacHale
#93. It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake.
Bille August
#94. In my opinion, trying to guess what readers want is the wrong approach. You have to tell your story as best you can and as true to yourself as possible. You have to be honest and fair and vulnerable and foolish and brave, and not care what anyone thinks of it.
Jeannette Walls
#95. 'Your heart is either beating or it's not, your heart never forgets. As long as your heart is beating follow it, it will always stay true to you.
Shawn Kirsten Maravel
#96. Pamalican Island is a wonderful story told with the sparkle of fun and a true understanding of the magic of childhood. A magical journey for any child who dreams of desert islands.
Raffaella Barker
#97. Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art.
Vladimir Nabokov
#98. True confession time: I never know where a book is going. I get a gut feeling the story is there, then pursue it with the enthusiasm of a hunting tiger on a trail. If I knew where I was going, I'd get bored out of my mind and stop writing.
Jane Lindskold
#99. Cutting words can cut your readers but if the intention is pure, the story will resonate loud and true.
Veronica Purcell
#100. As a writer, it's important to stay true to your story without giving a hoot about publishers, critics and readers. You should do your karma as an author the way you want to, and rest is up to God.
Amish Tripathi
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