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I'm a storyteller. I'm not like any other comic. I tell detailed stories - not made-up stuff, but true stories. -- Ron Shock
My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy. -- John Green
I look for the dark story, where something secret was done. I read and read and pick up the trail of a true story. I use nothing but true stories. They are so much better than phony ones. -- Alan Furst
All true stories end in death. -- Matthew Woodring Stover
They weren't true stories; they were better than that. -- Alice Hoffman
You, my lord, are the ending of all true stories. -- Martine Leavitt
All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism. -- John Green
If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables? -- Thomas Hardy
If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way -- Patrick Rothfuss
As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I think it's really healing to see movies that are based on true stories. It builds so much more compassion and empathy. -- Vanessa Hudgens
Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories. -- Philip Pullman
I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation. -- Aleksandar Hemon
Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories. -- Melissa Harris-Perry
The Moon Rabbit' is laying against the bunker, dreaming and thinking about life and dreaming the impossible possible and creating its own true stories. -- Florentijn Hofman
Me in a cape? I don't fancy that. Tight tights? Nah! I don't think that's right for me. I just respond more to true stories; that's my flavour. -- Jason Statham
I think, ultimately, people are looking for real heartfelt true stories. They want to engage with them, they want to relate (to) them and, ultimately, they want to have hope. -- Shari Wiedmann
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
Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected. -- Paul Auster
I like to tell untold true stories, or the lesser-known aspects of larger, familiar stories. I think people or topics that are slightly on the edge or outside the mainstream often reveal more than better-known stories. -- Nancy Kates
I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor. I was trained as an actor at Emerson College, and I use that training to play myself. -- Spalding Gray
They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better than I think we do now. But these stories are so potent, they refuse to die. -- Jane Yolen
Some stories are true that never happened. -- Elie Wiesel
Any story you've heard of my behavior is probably true. -- David Caruso
It's true that I'm drawn to unusual stories. Normal roles don't really attract me. -- Eva Green
The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isn't true. -- Jill Abramson
The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story. -- Joel Coen
If they're going to write a story they're going to write the story whether it's true or not. -- Mary-Kate Olsen
People love a true story and especially a true story where two people from opposite worlds come together. -- Harvey Weinstein
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
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure? -- Tanith Lee
We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That's not just my story. That's your story. That's our story. -- Marco Rubio
Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true. -- Mario Balotelli
I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories. -- Dennis Quaid
And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice. -- Joseph Story
True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale. -- Harold Brodkey
I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true. -- Patricia Polacco
All stories are true. -- Patrick Rothfuss
All the stories are true -- Cassandra Clare
True love stories never have endings. -- Richard Bach
Stories are a different kind of true. -- Emma Donoghue
True enjoy stories never ever have endings. -- Richard Bach
True or not, it's important to have stories -- David Toscana
Old stories often turn out to be true. -- Arthur Machen
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What's the use of stories that aren't even true? -- Salman Rushdie
True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love. -- Raymond Queneau
I'm a true opera buff. Operas make the best stories. -- Andrea Davis Pinkney
All stories are true. But some of them never happened. -- James A. Owen
Baseball is all about stories, many of which are even true. -- George Vecsey
What if all religions were stories, and all stories were true. -- Rick Chiantaretto
What if all religiouns were stories, and all stories were true? -- Rick Chiantaretto
If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death. -- George Pelecanos
True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely. -- Steven Knight
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All you can do is show people...You tell stories that are true and compelling. -- Bruce Springsteen
True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story. -- Frances Hardinge
The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isnt true. -- Jill Abramson
Inferiority intentions are sample chapters of defeated stories... Courageous beginnings are examples of true leadership values! -- Israelmore Ayivor
All stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened, if that's what you mean. -- Patrick Rothfuss
Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in. -- Kate Forsyth
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant. -- Michael Shermer
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There's not a lot of stories for women told by women in a very real, true voice. -- Heather Graham
Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories. -- Hilary Mantel
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true. -- Ulysses S. Grant
There were so many stories around, it was almost inevitable some of them would turn out to be true. -- Nigel Evans
The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries. -- Shonda Rhimes
It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life. -- Max Frisch
Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent. -- Neil Gaiman
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
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure? -- Tanith Lee
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
Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible. -- Jon Ronson
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
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
True stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded. -- Siri Hustvedt
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
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
What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human experience. -- John Gardner
Shakespeare does a great job of taking 5,000-year-old stories and turning them into modern pieces that are true to the original essence but are completely remade. -- Mark Ruffalo
I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end. -- M. Night Shyamalan
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
If the stories don't come from the inside out, then Bridget [Jones] is not being true to herself and it's very important to me that she stays that way. -- Helen Fielding
The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true. -- Frances Farmer
[Donald Trump] is saying that these stories of A-listers turning him down, "We're not asking 'em. I want the people at my inauguration." And I think that's probably true. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
[Donald Trump] is saying that these stories of A-listers turning him down, "We're not asking 'em. I want the people at my inauguration." And I think that's probably true. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just science fiction--don't believe it. Like the universe, there is no end. -- Jeanette Winterson

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