Fiction Quote by Margi Preus Download Open image ““Different versions of a true story”” — Margi Preus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction True story Viewpoints
There are so many versions of every story because every storyteller tells the story differently. — Tomm Moore Copy Share Image
“Everyone’s got a version of the same story, or maybe there’s no such thing as the same story; it’s a different story every time.” — Karen Tei Yamashita Copy Share Image
“people don't really want original stories. they want different versions of the same story. this is called meta-narrative.” — Chester Elijah Branch Copy Share Image
The story was the important thing and little changes here and there were really part of the story. There were even stories about the… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
Just remember there is always two sides of a story, just because someone tells you one thing doesn't make it always the true version. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“"Based on a true story"? No, thanks. I prefer "based on a true imagination".” — Enkelejd Lamaj Copy Share Image
The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of tales: one accurate but not true, the other true but not accurate.” — Margaret George Copy Share Image
“The door through which he had glimpsed such wondrous light, he had walked through. He had encountered both beauty and pain. Now he understood… — Margi Preus Copy Share Image
“These shells are just like the people of the world, Okachan,' Manjiro said, speaking not just to his mother, but to everyone. 'They come… — Margi Preus Copy Share Image
“Look at this world! So vast! So wide! Huge masses of land spread across it; multitudes of green and brown islands dotted the blue… — Margi Preus Copy Share Image
“Such is the amazing power of stories to link us to our past and lead us all the way back to the present.” — Margi Preus Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image