Best True Story Quotes

85 True Story quotes by 73 unique authors

It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were. — James Franco
I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm… — Terry Gross
It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes… — Naomie Harris
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. — Ernest Hemingway
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
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as… — Raymond Queneau
I did a film called 'Fort McCoy,' based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that was actually in… — Eric Stoltz
People love a true story and especially a true story where two people from opposite worlds come together. — Harvey Weinstein
The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true story. — Margaret Atwood
True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story. — Frances Hardinge
The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then… — Orson Scott Card
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables? — Thomas Hardy
Take a Nicodemus and put a Joseph Smith's spirit in him, and what do you have? Take a Da Vinci or a Michelangelo or a… — Brigham Young
Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who broke out of… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories. — Philip Pullman
By now, everyone I know is one of seven strangers, inevitably hoping to represent a predefined demographic and always failing horribly. The Read World is… — Chuck Klosterman
The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told. — Richard Matheson
They weren't true stories; they were better than that. — Alice Hoffman
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art. — Vladimir Nabokov
All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be… — Orson Scott Card
I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the… — Virginia Woolf
But this too is true: stories can save us. — Tim O'Brien
Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story? That I do… — Virginia Woolf
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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