Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“...One cannot help but consider the future- what will it be like when all the wild places of the earth have been… — Christopher Daniel Mechling Copy Share Image
“US General Mathew Ridgeway was speaking about “Operation Vulture”. He said, “When the day comes for me to meet my maker and… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
For me to play any true person in a film based on a true story, I always want to make sure that… — Lydia Hearst Copy Share Image
You know, I tried to get on Dancing with the Stars, and they wouldn't take me. True story! I shot the first… — Jenna Fischer Copy Share Image
“They said, “let me tell you a story, a true story, a story about good and evil, … a story that lives… — Mano Sotelo Copy Share Image
“Many Germans nowadays say they were not Nazi, and many were not, but they were nearly ALL Party members. It was safer… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
One reason I avoid the American TV talk show circuit, when I'm over there, is that the tabloids and the gossip mill… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
I think any time you've got a story based on a true story, no matter how accurate it is, obviously it's still… — John Lee Hancock Copy Share Image
I think we've always been fascinated with the idea of the romantic outlaw. John Gotti could be in one instance a charismatic,… — Joe Johnston Copy Share Image
“There was part of me listening that didn't think what I said was fiction. I was making up a true story.” — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“The story, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds... transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables? — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
Borrow your wife's pink slippers just to go check the mail and everybody in the whole damn community will stop by to… — Donny Norris Copy Share Image
It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
You know that film 'Tag' with Ed Helms? It's about these American friends who have this ongoing game of Tag. The movie's… — Alex Horne Copy Share Image
Every time you do a true story - and I've done a few - you have to look in the mirror and… — John Lee Hancock Copy Share Image
“The thing is, all memory is fiction. You have to remember that. Of course, there are things that actually, certifiably happened, things… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
“Jesus waited three days to come back to life. It was perfect! If he had only waited one day, a lot of… — Barney Stinson Copy Share Image
“True story This morning I jumped on my horse And went for a ride, And some wild outlaws chased me And shot… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
I was working within a figurative representational framework, and there was a sense of reading the painting as a transparency, or truth,… — Chitra Ganesh Copy Share Image
“For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.” — John Green Copy Share Image
Odds are you’re going to like this lively spin on the true story of six MIT mathletes who broke the Vegas Bank.… — Peter Travers Copy Share Image