True Stories Quotes

17 quotes by 17 authors

The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denialâ€”the truth only dies when true stories are untold. — Ken Liu
True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love. — Raymond Queneau
True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just science fiction--don't believe… — Jeanette Winterson
True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in… — Harold Brodkey
My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy. — John Green
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
A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked… — Daniel Handler
How many stories have you read that aren't true, stories about me and Angie being married or fighting or splitting up? And when we don't… — Brad Pitt
True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story. — Frances Hardinge
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables? — Thomas Hardy
Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories. — Philip Pullman
They weren't true stories; they were better than that. — Alice Hoffman
All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
But this too is true: stories can save us. — Tim O'Brien
They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better than I think… — Jane Yolen
If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way — Patrick Rothfuss
You, my lord, are the ending of all true stories. — Martine Leavitt

Who Wrote These True Stories Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 17 True Stories Quotes as follows: