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A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what it forgets. — Colin Thubron

Some stories are real. And a lot of stories that aren't real are still true. — Janette Rallison

People finally have permission to be human in the context of their work. That's the real Internet story. — Christopher Locke

The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death. — Neil Gaiman

Stories that are real, that create you, rather than be created by you, are powerful. — Amy Hardie

I thought I could do that by telling stories of some of the cases that established those principles on a real life on the ground basis. — Floyd Abrams

I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection. — Jamie Lee Curtis

The real world. The very notion is absurd. Worlds and everything in them are made real by the stories that inhabit them. — Jonathan Auxier

Literature is the real life of imaginary people. — Stefanos Livos

You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore. — David Shore

Tell stories that matter. Diction is about characters who don't exist, but their pain and sorrow and joy are very real. — Brenda Rothert

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to. — Fay Weldon

I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script. — Clive Owen

Stories are not real life, stories are pieces of morality made entertaining. — Matthew Jarpe

In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story. — Katherine Center

We all just need to be real. That is what will save us. — A.D. Posey

Note to reporters: The sanctimony thing probably works better on someone who has never broken real stories. — Colin Flaherty

We tell the real truth of our life by the stories we repeatedly tell. — Mary Anne Radmacher

People who wade into discomfort and vulnerability and tell the truth about their stories are the real badasses. — Brene Brown

Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do. — Colum McCann

I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Stories are better than fiction, so let's hope for some real-life sequels. — Katherine Ramsland

The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you. — Adam Johnson

Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations. — Vijay Seshadri

Our best hits are real-estate stories, going back to our first, JoJo in 1991. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

I really like stories, so in a way it doesn't matter for me if they are real or fiction. — Volker Bertelmann

The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you. — Ray Bradbury

If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them. — Kazuo Ishiguro

It's a lot more interesting to learn and discover real-life principles when they are revealed in the form of a story. — Andy Andrews

Thats beautiful! Sad and beautiful, murmured Meggie. Why were sad stories often so beautiful? It was different in real life. — Cornelia Funke

Real life has no understanding of proper structure," the boy said, "which is why news stories are always made of little lies. — Nick Harkaway

It turned out I really didn't like journalism. I wanted to make up stories, not cover real events. — Tawni O'Dell

There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are. — Samantha Bee

Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside. — Tahir Shah

They say a picture tells a thousand words, but photographs reveal only a small part of the real story about a person. — Brownell Landrum

Books, even made-up stories, can't all have happy endings because they reflect the real world, and the real world isn't always happy. — Ada Palmer

It is the stories of REAL PEOPLE living REAL LIVES that will define out generation. — Marilyn R. Wilson

All of the good, weird stories I've written are based on things I've dredged out of my subconscious. That's the real stuff. Everything else is fake. — Ray Bradbury

Real luxury is having the time to read endless stories in bed with my children. And I get that all the time. I'm so blessed. — Kate Winslet

The real story of Detroit [ ... ] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it. — Peter Schiff

I want to tell authentic, real stories with real characters. — Adepero Oduye

Surely she knows
like I do
that fairy tales are just stories. That happy endings aren't real. — Jodi Picoult

There are many dramas that I would like to make: dramas based on real stories. It's approaching things from the other side. — Errol Morris

Real love stories never have endings. — Richard Bach

Then I let the stories live
inside my head, again and again
until the real world fades back
into cricket lullabies
and my own dreams. — Jacqueline Woodson

while Tolkien's stories were not historically real, they were true — Devin Brown

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem. — Alex Cox

Stories that are
so vivid
so real
I could live inside of them — Kelsey Sutton

Without stories, we'd have even more trouble recognizing what's real. — Amy Neftzger

And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real — Mary Oliver

Humans like those stories because in the real world the underdog loses.
- Gastion — Ian Isaro

The telling of stories creates the real world. — Alberto Manguel

In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living. — Aleksandar Hemon

People have always wanted to in some way inhabit the stories that move them. The only real variable is whether technology gives them that opportunity. — Frank Rose

I love songs that tell stories. They make you feel something, something real. — Daphne Ashbrook

Everything that ever happened is just stories now, Earl. But it was all very real to people while it was happening. Wasn't it? — Terry Moore

Life is full of stories. Some are true, some aren't, but all of them are real. — D.H. Sayers

We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom. — Sharon Salzberg

It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action. — Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all
a backdrop for the stories we must tell. — Kate Atkinson

I like things that are weirdly imaginative and couldn't be real, but I also like stories that are recognizable and relatable. — Brian K. Vaughan

The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter. — Olivier Dahan

Most of these stories, you get probably 2 percent real fruit juice and the rest is just garbage with no nutritional value. — Brad Pitt

We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack. — Anne Bishop

The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest — Stewart Udall

Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity. — Elena Ferrante

I'm a huge fan of ghost stories, that sort of slow build, the suspense and the questioning about whether you're imagining something or if it's real. — Gillian Flynn

I draw inspiration from anything and everybody and that's what country music is to me ... real life stories and real life emotions. — Dustin Lynch

It is never, never too late, in a story or in real life, to correct. — Nancy Thayer

Choices are much more practical and small when you're dealing with a real story. It's about execution, it's not about content. — David Simon

I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling. — Neil Oliver

The telling of a good story, especially one that is real and true, is always exciting. — Aeriel Miranda

I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am. — Paul Auster

We believe that the materials and the stories taken from the raw can be finer (more real in the philosophic sense) than the acted article. — John Grierson

When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience. — Michael Shermer

It's real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go home and write about it. It's that quick. — Harvey Pekar

I like fictional stories - like, things that never happened but the seed of it starts as real. — Jake M. Johnson

Real love stories never end. — Claire Contreras

No, no, no," she said. "Wait." This time I groaned real — Natasha Stories

Real life is never so neat as the stories we choose to tell about it — Ken Dornstein

I like real stories. — Tim Matheson

Lead with a personal story. Give your audience a way to connect and show you're a real person. — Michael Hyatt

I also mistakenly believed that the scariest stories came from imagination, not real life. — Jodi Picoult

While the stories are fiction, the journey is real. — C.J. Peterson

Isn't that what stories do, make fake things real, and real things fake? — Marie Rutkoski

Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin. — Stanley Schmidt

Fiction isn't truer than life: it just makes a better story. — Marty Rubin

I'm a hopeless romantic. I consider myself a realistic person who usually finds stories from real life people. — Mabel Cheung

I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us,as it should. — John Green

I'm more into kind of real stories, psychological movies. — Violante Placido

questing in real life is much harder than it's made out to be in stories. — Eric Smith

In a story, nothing is real until it is acted upon. — William Kittredge

If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You're just telling yourself the story of how it doesn't. — Byron Katie

I like films that go a little more daring visually, and story-based stuff that usually reflects pretty closely to what real life is. — William Beckett

He believed that our life-stories are ours to construct as we wish,within or even against the constraints posed by the real world ... — J.M. Coetzee

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it. — Vanna Bonta

Anyway, nobody bothers with real beginnings anymore. We stopped making up stories about the creation of the world ages ago. — Catherynne M Valente

So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were. — Sarah Dessen

Fairyland, where dreams can hurt. Somewhere all stories are real, all songs are true. I thought that was a strange thing for the kelda to say ... — Terry Pratchett

There's not a lot of stories for women told by women in a very real, true voice. — Heather Graham