Quotes About Narrative

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it.

In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

I'm not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth.

All the truth in the world is held in stories.

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

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.

The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.

I think for some reason people are drawn to stories of all kinds, for some reason they land harder when they are "true." And yet in fiction, I think there is a lot of deeper truth, too.

In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself.

I can't help it if I stretch the truth, not if that's the way it happened.

In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.

If all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true.

A story has value whether it's true or not.

There are always two sides to a story.

All stories are born out of illusion, but that doesn't mean they're not worth telling.

A picture may tell a thousand words but it doesn't tell a story

Truth only has one story, while a lie has a dictionary.

Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we're used to.

There's an idea that action movies are more attractive to one gender than the other or different kinds of people or whatever. The truth is action is not any different than any other part of a story.

The novel and the film of 'The Color Purple' are both works of the imagination that make claim to historical truth.

What is the one message that only you can give? It's your story.

Words come alive from a page or script because both the writer and actor were brave enough to neither deny or invent their truth