True Story Quotes

• It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.

  James Franco

  Stories, Film, Figures

  Interview with Gus Van Sant, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

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• The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial—the truth only dies when true stories are untold.

  Ken Liu

  Suffering, Doe, Stories

  Ken Liu (2016). “The Paper Menagerie”, p.382, Head of Zeus

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• There's no substitute for the power of a personal story. The true stories of God redeeming a broken life shoot like arrows straight to our hearts and remind us that God wants to do the same life changing work in our lives. I love how one story can impact another story, causing a ripple effect of change if we let it.

  Matthew West

  Life Changing, Heart, Broken

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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

  Steven Knight

  Stories, Odd, Unlikely

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Stories, Ifs

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• A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can.

  Eben Alexander

  Medicine, Stories, Heal

  Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.

  Raymond Queneau

  Character, Historical Value, Fiction

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• The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.

  John Eldredge

  Heart, Journey, Stories

  Brent Curtis, John Eldredge (2001). “The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner

  Michael Chabon

  Writing, Way, Storyteller

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• 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

  Powerful, Stories, Film

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• The desire for story is very, very deep in human beings. We are the only creature in the world that does this; we are the only creature that tells stories, and sometimes those are true stories and sometimes those are made up stories. Then there are the larger stories, the grand narratives that we live in, which are things like nation and family and clan and so on. Those stories are considered to be treated reverentially. They need to be part of the way in which we conduct the discourse of our lives and to prevent people from doing something very damaging to human nature.

  Salman Rushdie

  People, Desire, World

  Source: pen.org

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• It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

  Patrick Ness

  Monsters, Stories, Cheat

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• All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Death, Suicide, Stories

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears.

  Orson Scott Card

  Mind, Desire, Stories

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Life, Sarcastic, Wisdom

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• 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

  Would Be, Stories, Literature

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• By now, everyone I know is one of seven strangers, inevitably hoping to represent a predefined demographic and always failing horribly. The Read World is the real world is The Real World is the read world. It’s the same true story, even when it isn’t.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Real, Stories, World

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• 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

  Funny, Silly, Writing

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• You, my lord, are the ending of all true stories.

  Martine Leavitt

  Stories, Lord

  Martine Leavitt (2016). “Keturah and Lord Death”, p.89, Highlights Press

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• 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

  Real, Thinking, Talking

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• Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story? That I do not know. Hence I keep my phrases hung like clothes in a cupboard, waiting for some one to wear them. Thus waiting, thus speculating, making this note and then an· other I do not cling to life. I shall be brushed like a bee from a sunflower. My philosophy, always accumulating, welling up moment by moment, runs like quicksilver a dozen ways at once.

  Virginia Woolf

  Running, Philosophy, Hands

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1411, Delphi Classics

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• But this too is true: stories can save us.

  Tim O'Brien

  Stories

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.213, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.

  Terry Gross

  Memories, Self, Knowing

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• One movie I think is just terrific is 'Bernie,' with Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine. That was a great surprise to me - so witty, so entertaining, a true story, and I'm not a great Jack Black fan, but he's great in it. I think it's a gem.

  Robert Osborne

  Witty, Thinking, Black

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• 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

  Mother, Perseverance, Teenage

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