Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image ““There is such a thing as robbing a story of its reality by trying to make it too true...”” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“We all tell our stories the way we want to. And sometimes those stories have nothing to do with reality.” — Danielle Ganek Copy Share Image
“Wanting something to be the truth does not make it true and believing that something is reality does not make it real.” — Jim Vuksic Copy Share Image
“What, you thought that one story was somehow more real than all the others, just because it’s the one that has the most people… — Seanan McGuire 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
“The point of stories is not that they are objectively true, but that the soul of the story is truer than reality. Those who… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Fictional stories were written so that they seemed real, kind of like a well-executed lie. Fiction creates an unreal world that's better than the… — Hiroshi Ishizaki Copy Share Image
“What makes a truly good story is its ability to be close enough to reality to be believable, yet far enough away to keep… — Rosi S. Phillips Copy Share Image
“People don't handle reality very well and prefer the story we make of our lives instead.” — Laura Gilfillan Copy Share Image
“Story isn’t a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality, our best effort to make sense out… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
