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And in the end, really, there's nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe Oh. — Tim O'Brien

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

Nonfiction means that our stories are as true and accurate as possible. Readers expect - demand - diligence. — Lee Gutkind

Nothing stayed, nothing ever changed. But love, only love, that was the true part of the story, no matter what the beginning, middle or end. — Selena Kitt

You, my lord, are the ending of all true stories. — Martine Leavitt

Whatever the drama of the story is, you have to be true to it. — Clint Eastwood

The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial - the truth only dies when true stories are untold. — Ken Liu

True Stories are fragments. Anything longer is a lie, a fabrication — Bilal Tanweer

Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look. — Diana Wynne Jones

The worst stories usually make you think: 'but nobody had to die'.
These are called true stories. — Moonshine Noire

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

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life. — Max Frisch

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

All you can do is show people ... You tell stories that are true and compelling. — Bruce Springsteen

True stories are the best stories. — Burbuqe Raufi

Every Mind Breaker I met was a true person inside and out. My name is Hayden Laevary, and these are their stories ... as well as mine. — Megan Duke

Getting an idea is not enough.
But when you get two ideas, and they collide and have a bastard love child, that's when true stories are born. — Johan M. Dahlgren

Each Fable is inspired by some true stories which doesn't have an happy ending, unlike the Fable. — Neetesh Dixit

Could the stories that parents tell children to lull them to sleep actually be true? — Ken Liu

My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy. — John Green

Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories. — Philip Pullman

Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew. — Jack Kerouac

At the very first he knew he was lying, but it was not long before he was equally sure that every one of his stories was true. — John Steinbeck

True love stories never have endings. — Richard Bach

SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine. — Ambrose Bierce

For a while, the genre seemed to be just about sex and crime. Rappers are storytellers; the stories don't need to be true! — Lauryn Hill

Life is the courier of the universal brilliance. Elysse — Elysse Poetis

Who knows how much of our stories are true? — Anne Lamott

Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge. — Erwin Knoll

A true love story has always been about the journey, not the ending. — Shannon L. Alder

We can't live in a state of perpetual doubt, so we make up the best story possible and we live as if the story were true. — Daniel Kahneman

Old stories often turn out to be true. — Arthur Machen

So by all means, have your beliefs - but hold them lightly. Keep in mind that all beliefs are stories, whether or not they're true. — Russ Harris

Most of what you have read or watched in the media is true and 100% accurate. But HOW you are told the stories, and When, there lies the manipulation! — Waseem Kanjo

A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he himself has experienced what he is trying to tell of. — Jack Kerouac

A bit ridiculous, but true. The moral of this story is to separate men and women when analyzing number of sexual organs. — Des MacHale

Five hundred and fifty generations have lived here. Only the stories we tell each other will create us as a true Canadian people. — Rudy Wiebe

I made this story up to make me feel better. Now I'm writing it down. It's not true. — Neil Gaiman

Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is true that I visualize music and, as I visualize music, I have some sort of story running in my head, all the time. — Susan Stroman

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

When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love. — Eckhart Tolle

They weren't true stories; they were better than that. — Alice Hoffman

Stories are always true ... it's the facts that mislead. — Jeanette Winterson

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant. — Michael Shermer

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent. — Neil Gaiman

All the stories are true — Cassandra Clare

Believe not each accusing tongue,
As most weak persons do;
But still believe that story wrong,
Which ought not to be true! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The stories, when they were shared, inevitably ended with, I mean, can you believe it? We often could not, but they always proved true. — John Green

How complex, untrustworthy, and important our stories are. We will never tell you the true story of our lives. — Andy Quan

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

I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism. — John Green

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way — Patrick Rothfuss

The Gospel, because it is a true story, means all the best stories will be proved, in the ultimate sense, true. THE — Timothy J. Keller

As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true. — Paul Auster

All Stories are True. — John Edgar Wideman

Never tell a story because it is true: tell it because it is a good story. — John Pentland Mahaffy

"Money to Burn" is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs are written in metaphors. — Ladyhawke

Everything you've heard about monsters, about nightmares, legends whispered around campfires... all the stories are true — Cassandra Clare

True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely. — Steven Knight

'Shantaram' is fantastic. An Australian prisoner escapes & joins the mafia in India? Sign me up. I love stuff that is based on true stories. — Hasan Minhaj

A film that is a true work of art transcends theatre and heartwarmingly changes lives. — A.D. Posey

Hatred doesn't lie. Hatred doesn't tell soothing stories. You'll tell me true.' ~ Hadrian — Kate Quinn

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

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true. — Ulysses S. Grant

True love stories have no endings... author unknown — K.K. Gould

Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in. — Kate Forsyth

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

It is true that I will confess that I have an incredible fascination for pop-culture stories about the Apocalypse and the end of the world. — Annalee Newitz

All stories are true. But some of them never happened. — James A. Owen

I feel your words on my lips
and feel your mood in my hips — Maquita Donyel Irvin

But this too is true: stories can save us. — Tim O'Brien

All the stories are true. Of course, what Jace means ultimately is that stories are how we make sense of the world. — Cassandra Clare

These stories are all true, but only somewhere else. — Kristopher Jansma

Is that true, Ruth?' Mrs Quinty asked, eyes enormous and brows lifted, missing altogether the point of stories. — Niall Williams

Believe that story false that ought not to be true. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Fairy tales are more than true ... — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted upon. — Steve Maraboli

Only by creating out of love will one achieve true greatness. — A.D. Posey

It is the job of art to replace unhappy true stories with happier inventions. — Sophie Hannah

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables? — Thomas Hardy

All of those stories are just tales told by people who lived lives before ours. What they say about humankind is true. — Brandon Sanderson

In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves. — Christina Baldwin

Some stories are true that never happened. — Elie Wiesel

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

Listen to my story and everything will come out true — Bessie Smith

There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life. — Beyonce Knowles

I'm a storyteller. I'm not like any other comic. I tell detailed stories - not made-up stuff, but true stories. — Ron Shock

A child's own story is a dream, but a good story is a dream that is true for more than one child. — Margaret Wise Brown

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,

All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take from it - did it make you laugh, cry, or seek and want justice? Then it's true. — Patricia Polacco

All true stories end in death. — Matthew Woodring Stover

The best stories are often true ... The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries. — Shonda Rhimes

Perhaps any life is such: different stories like different strands, each distinct in itself, each true, yet wound together to form one rope, one life. — Lee Smith

I think that's just a story."
"But, Jace," she said. "All stories are true. — Cassandra Clare

If you tell the same story five times, it's true. — Larry Speakes

But this too is true: stories save us. — Tim O'Brien

True enjoy stories never ever have endings. — Richard Bach

That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true. — Marc Webb

The stories you believe to be true are the ones your life will become. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal