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

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Life, Sarcastic, Wisdom

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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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• True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.

  Frances Hardinge

  Stories, Want, Happy Endings

  "Fly by Night". Book by Frances Hardinge, October 7, 2005.

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• They weren't true stories; they were better than that.

  Alice Hoffman

  Stories

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• If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Stories, Way, Remember

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• 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

  Thinking, Stories, Matter

  "Director John Lee Hancock Talks SAVING MR. BANKS, Why He Takes Time Between Projects, Working with Disney’s Legal Department, and THE AMERICAN CAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 18, 2013.

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• 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

  Real, Book, Numbers

  Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com. September 22, 2011.

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• I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism.

  John Green

  Thinking, Hopeful, Nihilism

  Interview with Jade Chang, www.goodreads.com. December, 2012.

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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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• 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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