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

Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.

— Philip Pullman

“Don't tell me a true story, tell me a story of truth.”

— Rob Al'dred

“I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I…

— Joan Didion

“It's not an easy thing to tell a true story.”

— Allen Morris Jones

“...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…

— Elspeth Huxley

My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.

— John Green

All fiction is based on truth - 'Madame Bovary' is based on a true story!

— Leila Slimani

'Peter Pan' is tried and true - it's a story that everybody knows.

— Taylor Louderman

Sometimes I get the story wrong, or it's the wrong story, and then things don't work.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

“This doesn't feel like my story, but may be the wrong page still leads to the right chapter.”

— Susan Shrestha

Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the…

— Jeremy Renner

“He thought I was the hero of our story. How wrong he was. He had been the hero all along.”

— Abbi Glines

“There are two sides to every story, as if that explains and justifies everything! You know what I say when someone tells me that?…

— Nikki Sex

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

'Noah' doesn't merely get the story wrong; like all Biblical adaptations, it's bound to do that (although some aspects of the film are out…

— Ben Shapiro