Quotes About Story

Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night.

Remember this always: The living of your own life writes the book of your most sacred truth, and offers evidence of it.

The strength of a story is the truth you find in it.

I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important.

The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.

A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth.

The truth came slowly like a story told by people interrupting each other.

I think facts and truth are essential to journalism but you need to reckon with emotion. You have to deal with how people feel, otherwise you miss the story.

The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.

It's only a story, isn't it?"... "Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story?

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.

A beautifully written tale that lives somewhere between landscape and memory, where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough becomes truth.

The real truth is that [Harriet Tubman ] spirit is so powerful that it consumes you. I was literally reduced to basic breath and blinks while she inhabited my vessel and told her story through me.

I've come to realize that people connect more when they know you're telling them the truth or some aspect of your story, some mutated version of how you are experiencing this life.

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

Truth can arrive within the story and ride latent - a bit incognito - within a story, and people are more prone to receive it.

A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.

One thing we can probably agree on is that the truth, however we define it, is often hard to tell. It can be hard to tell the facts of the story, and it can be hard to tell its emotional truth too.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.

Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

Ultimately, what audiences respond to is truth. Even as fantastical as the story can be, and out there, at its core, it's dealing with loss, madness and mortality.

The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.

I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end.

Truth is better than fiction in terms of telling the story.