Quotes of: True-story Keyword

It's all about creating a back story for the character and developing emotional responses that are true to life in relation to the character. It isn't necessary to live a tragic life to create from that place.

Corin Nemec

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

Jean M. Auel

Margaret Lord: The course of true love... Macaulay Connor: ...gathers no moss.

The Philadelphia Story

Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't.

Ray McKinnon

I feel like the only reason we’re able to find some of these unique ideas, characters, and story twists is through discovery. And, by definition, ‘discovery’ means you don’t know the answer when you start.

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

The self-congratulatory popular account insists that Dr. King called on the nation to fully accept its own creed, and the walls came a-tumbling down. This conventional narrative is soothing, moving, and politically acceptable, and has only the disadv...

Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

Then, after showing the pill and some graphics, those same people appeared again, looking happier. The Reb and I watched in silence. After it ended, he asked, "Do you think those pills work?" Not like that, I said. "No," he agreed. "Not like that.

Have a Little Faith: a True Story

Not that kind of cheating," Mags said. "More like...skipping ahead. If you like someone, you should have to make an effort. You should have to get to know the person--you should have to work for that first kiss.

My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

We tell our stories, especially as young people, in part because we want them to be true. We want life to be full of adventure and creativity and daring that might, just might, be real.

Local Girl Makes History: Exploring Northern California's Kitsch Monuments

In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the vast silent waiting ...

Super Sad True Love Story

I know that some people disparage you for your lack of knowledge, and I know you may not understand me, Peter, but I wish you could, because you might be the only person who would. I feel that I can tell you anything Peter.

Peter: The Untold True Story

Dear Fly, I love you. If you are a mouse I am cheese. If you are a cat I am a mouse. You are a fly, so I want to be shit.

To Timbuktu: Nine Countries, Two People, One True Story

It amazed Forrest that so many men seemed to wake up in the morning needing some kind of beating or another, men saying and doing fantastic things for the sake of getting another man to smash his face.

The Wettest County in the World: A Novel Based on a True Story

One hears a great many things, true, but can gather nothing definite.

The Complete Stories

But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?

I Know This Much Is True

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

Michael Shermer

And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.

Anna Friel

How can an article about me or the Batman be the true story when I am not consulted or interviewed?

Bob Kane

I had so much fun playing songs from 'Based On A True Story...' and getting to see the crowd's reaction to those songs was unforgettable.

Blake Shelton

A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

Jim Harrison

Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.

Jennifer Beals