True Stories Quotes
17 quotes by 17 authors
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The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial—the truth only dies when true stories are untold.
— Ken Liu
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True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.
— Raymond Queneau
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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
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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
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My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.
— John Green
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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
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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
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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
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True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.
— Frances Hardinge
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If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?
— Thomas Hardy
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Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.
— Philip Pullman
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They weren't true stories; they were better than that.
— Alice Hoffman
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All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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But this too is true: stories can save us.
— Tim O'Brien
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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
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If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way
— Patrick Rothfuss
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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: