True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
“I once got stabbed with a lightning bolt. True story. (No it isn’t).” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Nobody but you have to believe in your dreams to make them a reality.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
“The following is a true story. However, the characters, locations, situations, and events are entirely fictional.” — Derek Fox Copy Share Image
A true storyteller is really good at writing himself into a corner and then finding a way out of that corner — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
All fiction is based on truth - 'Madame Bovary' is based on a true story! — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer. — Jean Little Copy Share Image
“Make it interesting and it will be true: this is what story writers live by.” — Heidi Pitlor Copy Share Image
“You can't truly understand a fact by watching its' true story version.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Don't you worry about any bad comments or any judgmental people. Because the true story about yourself only God that knows it. — Reny Copy Share Image
“No, true story," Peeta says. "And I said, 'A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“The story is not told to lift you up, to make you feel better, or to entertain you, although all those things… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
'Operation Ajax' presents history in an entirely new way. It takes a true story and uses cutting-edge technology, never before used in… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
“For realists, the true story of the Civil War illuminates the problem of ostensibly sober-minded compromise with powerful, and intractable, evil.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide,… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence.… — Orson Scott Card 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
My son the other day was looking and found a grey hair and started crying because he thought I was going to… — Daryl Morey Copy Share Image
One of my favorite episodes in West Wing was the homeless man that died and they found, in the overcoat he was… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
“Have you really read all those books in your room?" She laughed, "Oh God no. I've maybe read a third of 'em.… — John Green 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
“A new legend swept Oregon, from Roseburg all the way north to the Columbia, from the mountains to the sea. It traveled… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“He told me how he had first met her during the war and then lost her and won her back, and about… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“But nothing in my previous work had prepared me for the experience of reinvestigating Cleveland. It is worth — given the passage… — Sue Richardson Copy Share Image
I was working on a satirical novel about a charismatic preacher who takes over a small Indiana town. Then I remembered Jim… — Julia Scheeres 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
“We don’t have to relive the sad and bad memories of Christmas Past. We can create new Christmas memories in the present… — Tom North Copy Share Image
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
I had so much fun playing songs from 'Based On A True Story...' and getting to see the crowd's reaction to those… — Blake Shelton Copy Share Image
The first to apologize is the bravest The fist to forgive is the strongest. And the first to forget is the happiest¦true… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
What is truth? What is a true story? Who is telling the truth, and what is truth in this world today? — David Thewlis Copy Share Image
“To reveal who he really was would even at this date set the country in a blaze.” — J.M. Barrie 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
