Hope Quote by Patrick Ness

“What did the truth matter? All characters once dead, if they continue to exist in memory at all, tend to become fictions.”

— Graham Greene

“Sometimes all a story needed was one or two people to read or listen to it to make it matter.”

— Adam Langer

“All stories are made of both truths and lies, [...] What matters is the way that we believe in them.”

— Stephanie Garber

“Don’t you think one can tell the truth much better with a story?”

— Diane Setterfield

“and people could only make sense of complicated matters through stories. Likewise”

— Neal Stephenson

“George was, in truth, one of the sort who evidently have made some mistake in coming into this world at all, as their internal…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Maybe story is just for the assembling of things -- history, imagination, fact -- without which . . . our lives will dissipate, losing meaning and coherence.”

— Katharine Haake

“What could he do but accept the disturbing extent to which memory was fictional and hope that the fiction lay at the service of…

— Edward St. Aubyn

“All the truth is held in stories, you know?”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.”

— Jasper Fforde

“How impossible it is to forget the stories we tell ourselves, even when the truth should supersede them.”

— Stephanie Danler

“He does not know that the ultimate truth is that history ought to consist only of the anecdotes of the little people who are…

— Louis de Bernières