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True Story Quotes

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
You like to tell true stories, don't you?' he asked, and I answered, 'Yes, I like to tell stories that are true.' Then he asked, 'After you have finished your true stories sometime, why don't you make up a story and the people to go with it? Only then will you understand what happened and why. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. Norman Maclean
...that's the way to tell a true story from a made-up one. A made-up story always has a neat and tidy end. But true stories don't end, at least until their heroes and heroines die, and not then really because the things they did and didn't do, sometimes live on. Elspeth Huxley
I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks withphrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which allthese phrases refer. But I have never yet found the story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories? Virginia Woolf
I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story. Joan Didion
He told me how he had first met her during the war and then lost her and won her back, and about their marriage and then about something tragic that had happened to them at St-Raphael about a year ago. This first version that he told me of Zelda . and a French naval aviator falling in love was truly a sad story and I believe it was a true story. Later he told me other versions of it as though trying them for use in a novel, but none was as sad as this first one and I always believed the first... Ernest Hemingway
Margaret Atwood quote: "The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all...."
The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true story. Margaret Atwood
Harvey Weinstein quote: "People love a true story and especially a true story where two..."
People love a true story and especially a true story where two people from opposite worlds come together. Harvey Weinstein
Philip Pullman quote: "Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true..."
Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories. Philip Pullman
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a..."
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art. Vladimir Nabokov
Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story? That I do not know. Hence I keep my phrases hung like clothes in a cupboard, waiting for some one to wear them. Thus waiting, thus speculating, making this note and then a? other I do not cling to life. I shall be brushed like a bee from a sunflower. My philosophy, always accumulating, welling up moment by moment, runs like quicksilver a dozen ways at once. Virginia Woolf
The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elucidated, expanded, edited, and clarified by their own experience, their own desires, their own hopes and fears. Orson Scott Card
It was, when I read it, I thought, such a beautiful script. I loved the story. I thought it was well handled. I thought it was even more moving because it was a true story and that made it even more poignant. Jennifer Connelly
Ethan Coen quote: "The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if..."
The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story. Ethan Coen
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey. Raymond Queneau

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