Quote by Bilal Tanweer Download Open image ““True Stories are fragments. Anything longer is a lie, a fabrication”” — Bilal Tanweer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“You see, a truth parted with has its own way of becoming a tale. It is told so often that it stumbles in the… — Roshani Chokshi Copy Share Image
“A story is nothing but a lie. An illusion. And that illusion only works if we trust in it.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But stories are just tools. They should not become our goals or our yardsticks. When we forget that they are mere fiction, we lose… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“All stories are made of both truths and lies, [...] What matters is the way that we believe in them.” — Stephanie Garber Copy Share Image
“Writers are liars, my dear, surely you know that by now? And yet, things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.” — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
“I’m a storyteller. I’ll work to make you believe me. Throw in some real stuff, change a few details, add the certainty of outrage. I know the use of fiction in a world of hard truth, the way fiction can be a harder piece of truth. The story of what happened, or what did not happen but should have—that story… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share
“True stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“The shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.” — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“When I write an story, I start with one true thing – a memory, an image, a sensation – then I try to say… — David Surface Copy Share Image
“Once you tell somebody a story, you are all in the same world and you can all speak to each other about the same… — Bilal Tanweer Copy Share Image
“These stories, I realized, were lost. Nobody was going to know that part of the city but as a place where a bomb went… — Bilal Tanweer Copy Share Image
“You just gave her an angry glance in return. It was the kind of glance that children give their parents when they know exactly… — Bilal Tanweer Copy Share Image
“Reasons were invented, and stories were reasons that allowed us to connect ourselves to the world, to compose ourselves in ways that others could… — Bilal Tanweer Copy Share Image
“Now, standing here, it is clear as day: more than anything else, you want to find words for what you feel and think and… — Bilal Tanweer Copy Share Image
“Living in this city, you developed a certain relationship with violence and news of violence: you expected it, dreaded it, and then when it… — Bilal Tanweer Copy Share Image
“The sea, you see, feels good for only a few days, but then it starts suffocating you. You first escape to the sea to… — Bilal Tanweer Copy Share Image