Top 100 True Stories Quotes
#1. Each Fable is inspired by some true stories which doesn't have an happy ending, unlike the Fable.
Neetesh Dixit
#2. Fairytales cleanse and sanitise what were once true stories. In fairytales, knights are chivalrous, clean-shaven and wear shining armour - when in truth they were swarthy, filthy rapists and thugs. Castles are bright and gay when in truth they were grim fortresses.
Matthew Reilly
#3. I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism.
John Green
#4. Like all true stories, it was a mix of legends and facts, of myths imagined and deeds done, of the heart of darkness and the crown of light, of experiences borne and gaps filled, of things seen and visions that could only be authenticated by the mind's eye.
Ken Liu
#5. Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.
Philip Pullman
#6. True Stories are fragments. Anything longer is a lie, a fabrication
Bilal Tanweer
#7. I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.
Clive Owen
#8. True stories seldom have endings.
I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.
Frances Hardinge
#9. How many stories have you read that aren't true, stories about me and Angie being married or fighting or splitting up? And when we don't split up, there's a whole new round that we've made up and we're back together again!
Brad Pitt
#10. Fairy tales are just true stories that humans have chosen not to believe in any more. Besides, this is Myths and Legends where dreams and nightmares come to life.
Stacie Simpson
#11. Start Now, close your eyes for few minutes and then open them... so far it's going great... Now just think your three favourite things which you enjoy watching, like for example I like True Crimes, True Stories and so far Suspense.
Deyth Banger
#12. They weren't true stories; they were better than that.
Alice Hoffman
#15. Me in a cape? I don't fancy that. Tight tights? Nah! I don't think that's right for me. I just respond more to true stories; that's my flavour.
Jason Statham
#16. I think it's really healing to see movies that are based on true stories. It builds so much more compassion and empathy.
Vanessa Hudgens
#17. Even the two novels I've written were based on true stories. It's how I'm wired - real life is fascinating and fantastical enough. The kind of journalism I did unpeeled lids from cans otherwise sealed.
Peter Landesman
#18. 'The Moon Rabbit' is laying against the bunker, dreaming and thinking about life and dreaming the impossible possible and creating its own true stories.
Florentijn Hofman
#19. You know it's Oscar season when you see a slew of new movies based on true stories whose resolutions you can find in three seconds on Wikipedia.
Richard Corliss
#20. If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?
Thomas Hardy
#21. 'Shantaram' is fantastic. An Australian prisoner escapes & joins the mafia in India? Sign me up. I love stuff that is based on true stories.
Hasan Minhaj
#22. True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.
Raymond Queneau
#23. Getting an idea is not enough.
But when you get two ideas, and they collide and have a bastard love child, that's when true stories are born.
Johan M. Dahlgren
#24. Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories.
Melissa Harris-Perry
#25. But this too is true: stories can save us.
Tim O'Brien
#26. I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.
Aleksandar Hemon
#27. I look for the dark story, where something secret was done. I read and read and pick up the trail of a true story. I use nothing but true stories. They are so much better than phony ones.
Alan Furst
#28. That is how we always keep our beloved dead alive, isn't it? By telling stories about them; true stories.
James D. Bradley
#29. 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
#30. That's not true. People are more affected by true stories than they are fiction. You said so yourself." "What I said was that people have a tendency to call whatever moves them 'the truth.
Hiroshi Yamamoto
#31. The worst stories usually make you think: 'but nobody had to die'.
These are called true stories.
Moonshine Noire
#32. Nobody said it had to be a story with an ending all neatly tied up like some ridiculous fairy tale. This story's true, and true stories don't have endings, because things just keep going.
Kate Milford
#33. It is the job of art to replace unhappy true stories with happier inventions.
Sophie Hannah
#34. I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor. I was trained as an actor at Emerson College, and I use that training to play myself.
Spalding Gray
#35. My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.
John Green
#36. If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way
Patrick Rothfuss
#37. Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.
Paul Auster
#38. My music is more than me writing a flashy soul song. They're heartfelt songs about my family and true stories. I have also songs that aren't personal, but just painting a picture. I don't like being put under labels, but my music is going to continue to stay classic and timeless forever.
Leon Bridges
#39. I'm a storyteller. I'm not like any other comic. I tell detailed stories - not made-up stuff, but true stories.
Ron Shock
#40. The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial - the truth only dies when true stories are untold.
Ken Liu
#41. I think, ultimately, people are looking for real heartfelt true stories. They want to engage with them, they want to relate (to) them and, ultimately, they want to have hope.
Shari Wiedmann
#42. As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#43. They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better than I think we do now. But these stories are so potent, they refuse to die.
Jane Yolen
#44. True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
Harold Brodkey
#46. That's the way to tell a true story from a made-up one. A made-up story always has a neat and tidy end. But true stories don't end, at least until their heroes and heroines die, and not then really because the things they did and didn't do, sometimes live on.
Elspeth Huxley
#47. All true stories begin and end in a cemetery - The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#48. But this too is true: stories save us.
Tim O'Brien
#49. I like to tell untold true stories, or the lesser-known aspects of larger, familiar stories. I think people or topics that are slightly on the edge or outside the mainstream often reveal more than better-known stories.
Nancy Kates
#50. True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely.
Steven Knight
#51. 'Planet Earth' was such an extraordinary series and the 'Making Of' ... is fascinating: the creatures and stories behind the camera are just as fascinating as those in front. It's a bit of a dream come true to be a part of the team in some small way.
Dan Stevens
#52. Having exhausted every possibility at the moment when he was coming full circle, Antonino realised that photographing photographs was the only course that he had left - or, rather, the true course he had obscurely been seeking all this time. (Last line of the story The Adventure of a Photographer )
Italo Calvino
#53. Humans don't leap buildings. Stuntmen with harnesses do. And won't my crashing eight stories to the ground be detrimental to the mission? The dark elves will swarm me and take me hostage instantly."
"That might be true, but you're not going to fall," he said.
Amanda Carlson
#54. This world is not enough, but it will have to do. You can either hold on or let go.
Margaret Atwood
#55. Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.
Mario Balotelli
#56. I dish the dirt out, and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it? In 20 years, I have taken any number of stories, most of which are not true, without a murmur of complaint. But some stories you have to draw the line and say No.
Jeremy Clarkson
#57. Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath they feed a hunger for justice ... you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#58. The point of telling our stories, even if only to ourselves, is to help us resurrect the parts we have buried. When we unearth them, even if it's difficult, we can integrate them into our sense of who we are. Often in our buried self our true power lies.
Helen LaKelly Hunt
#59. Believe not each accusing tongue,
As most weak persons do;
But still believe that story wrong,
Which ought not to be true!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#60. 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
#61. One of the main reasons is that most Sunday school curricula only teaches disconnected Bible stories. They don't teach how we know the Bible is true, how to defend the faith, and how to answer the skeptical questions of today.
Ken Ham
#62. In my films quite often, paranoia usually leads to the truth so it is kind of a psychological state of mind to think that what you fear may come true, and those are the types of stories that I like to tell.
Larry Fessenden
#63. Life is full of stories. Some are true, some aren't, but all of them are real.
D.H. Sayers
#64. 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
#65. What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human experience.
John Gardner
#66. I'm really just trying ... to write what feels true to me. I don't think about a lofty responsibility. I think I'd be paralyzed by that. Like any of my male colleagues, I'm writing the stories that interest me in a way that feels true to me.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
#67. Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#68. As we open the gates to Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, we know that millions of guests will open their hearts to this fantasy world where characters and stories spring to life, where dreams come true and where families will have fun together.
Jay Rasulo
#69. To tell one comprehensive story of how it has happened that what is is, one which shall hold true, come what may, now-after - a story that whatever comes shall perfectly continue or confirm: such is the ideal motive of religions.
Laura Riding
#70. So are the stories true?" asked Hunter. "Depends," Becca hedged. "What have you heard?"
"That you knocked two seniors on their asses on the soccer field, then flipped off the coach."
"Absolutely true," said Becca, deadpan.
Brigid Kemmerer
#71. Many people think of the Bible as a book of moral teachings with stories sprinkled through to illustrate the teachings. But it's a lot BETTER THAN THAT ... the Bible is a single true story with teachings sprinkled through to illustrate the story.
Timothy Keller
#72. All stories are true. But some of them never happened.
James A. Owen
#73. I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.
M. Night Shyamalan
#74. True enjoy stories never ever have endings.
Richard Bach
#75. There's not a lot of stories for women told by women in a very real, true voice.
Heather Graham
#76. If you feel stuck in your present life, if you feel no enthusiasm for anything, if you think you have no purpose or that you lost that purpose somewhere along the way, I guarantee you are living in a dungeon made of stories. And that none of those limiting stories are true.
Martha Beck
#77. 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
#78. Nonfiction means that our stories are as true and accurate as possible. Readers expect - demand - diligence.
Lee Gutkind
#79. True love stories have no endings... author unknown
K.K. Gould
#80. A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas and comedies that shine a clean light into the dingy corners of the human psyche and society.
Robert McKee
#81. So by all means, have your beliefs - but hold them lightly. Keep in mind that all beliefs are stories, whether or not they're true.
Russ Harris
#82. Everything you've heard about monsters, about nightmares, legends whispered around campfires... all the stories are true
Cassandra Clare
#83. 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
#84. I have great respect for the FBI, and I know that there have been some rumors lately that the FBI was disenchanted because of what we were doing in story, or doing a certain take: that's not true. Actually the FBI was tremendously enthusiastic about us doing [ J. Edgar Hoover ] film.
Clint Eastwood
#85. We photographers say that we take a picture, and in a certain sense, that is true. We take something from people's lives, but in doing so we tell their story.
Steve McCurry
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Aparna Gangopadhyay
#87. My favorite song is called 'Reachout.' There are so many different stories told in that song. I think anyone who listens to it will gather a different meaning, but each answer is true. I also like the sound of it, period - there are a lot of classical influences.
Wynter Gordon
#88. Our earliest poets were shamans. Today, as in the earliest times, true shamans are poets of consciousness who know the power of song and story to teach and to heal.
Robert Moss
#89. 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
#90. I used to be scared of the Candyman. You'd say his name three times in the mirror and then he'd come get you. I was terrified of that stuff becoming true. My older cousins used to say things to make us believe crazy stories like that, so I was scared of the Candymanuntil I knew better.
Tony Harrison
#91. I meant fact," Holden went on as if he hadn't heard Alex at all. "I thought if you told people facts, they'd draw their conclusions, and because the facts were true, the conclusions mostly would be too. But we don't run on facts. We run on stories about things. About
James S.A. Corey
#92. An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true.
Daniel Kahneman
#93. It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
Max Frisch
#94. Love is reckless because true emotions are immune to logic. The most beautiful love stories are often the most tragic.
Jewel E. Ann
#96. As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.
Paul Auster
#97. Why bother with fictional characters and plots when the world was full of more marvelous stories that were true, with characters so fresh, so powerful, so new, that they stepped from into the narratives under their own power?
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#98. While helping hundreds of thousands of refugees, Red Cross volunteers undoubtedly heard stories of Nazi brutality and rumors of mass gassings and they noted those rumors and kept an eye out for any evidence of them, but they saw nothing to indicate that the rumors were true.
David Duke
#99. You have stories worth telling, memories worth remembering, dreams worth working toward, a body worth feeding, a soul worth tending, and beyond that, the God of the universe dwells within you, the true culmination of super and natural.
Shauna Niequist
#100. Every fictional thing I wrote gave me strength to write another and another. By the end I wasn't remaining true to anything but the story I wanted to tell.
Lily King
