To Good To Be True Stories Quotes

#1. World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.

Ken Follett

#2. In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is 'as good as she is beautiful.' I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel bad for them.

Alex Flinn

#3. An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true.

Daniel Kahneman

#4. The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.

Saul Williams

#5. The telling of a good story, especially one that is real and true, is always exciting.

Aeriel Miranda

#6. Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

Hilary Mantel

#7. All good stories are true. Even if they were completely made up by the storyteller, there is something in them that resonates with us. Courage. Love. Self-sacrifice. The storyteller makes his story real through the telling.

C.E. Laureano

#8. If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

Thomas Hardy

#9. Never tell a story because it is true: tell it because it is a good story.

John Pentland Mahaffy

#10. b Better is a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble with it. 17 c Better is a dinner of herbs where love

Anonymous

#11. You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.

Maggie Stiefvater

#12. 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

#13. I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories.

Dennis Quaid

#14. When people ask "Do you put real people in your books?" the answer is that, for me, it is quite impossible to write about anyone I know, or have ever spoken to, or indeed have even heard about! For some reason, it kills them for me stone dead.

Agatha Christie

#15. He was aching to learn what Celaena's lips felt like, what her bare skin smelled like, how she'd react to the touch of his fingers along her body.

Sarah J. Maas

#16. Stories ain't about the feller what wrote 'em, even if he pertends they are. They don' even hev t'be true to be right! Stories are 'bout what they make you feel. If'n they make you feel good, an' make y'all wanta be brave, an' good, an' do what's right, thet's the important thing!

Mercedes Lackey

#17. Bound by Blood, Marked by the Dragonfly.

Lisa Akers

#18. i think anyone who loves good and true stories you have to read g-spot and you will not want to put it down and you might want to read it again.

Noire

#19. If you know the brightness of your heart, you will never fear darkness.

Debasish Mridha

#20. 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

#21. When it comes to bending the truth to assist a story's plot versus staying completely true to the facts, we can assure you any dramatist will always select the former. Mark Twain's old saying "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story" still reigns in Hollywood.

James Morcan

#22. Hands learn. More than minds do.

Sarah Kay

#23. For decades, I have been a militant anti-declinist in terms of America's place in the world.

Conrad Black

#24. The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.

Friedrich Melchior, Baron Von Grimm

#25. I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.

Ray Kroc

#26. You can die trying to get along with a disagreeable man," she said, and I put a star beside it when I wrote it down and then taped it to the rear-view mirror for the rest of the drive. She hadn't said "abusive," I noticed; she had said that just disagreeable could kill you.

Debby Bull

#27. And I know the auditorium may be big enough to hold a thousand students, but it's too small to hide just one.

Marieke Nijkamp

#28. I read individual stories a lot in magazines and other places, too, but I really think there's something to be said for reading story collections as collections. That's not true of all story collections, to be honest, but for good ones I think it often is true.

Brian Evenson

#29. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

Bertrand Russell

#30. To write a novel is to dream a story and write it down on the page. That's why the power of a really good story is one of true magic. Good stories engage the reader utterly in the writer's dream so the dream becomes theirs, too.

Wendy J. Dunn

#31. True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely.

Steven Knight

#32. Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

Neil Gaiman