Quotes on True Story

I find it relatively easy to keep my clothes on because I don't really feel like taking them off. It's not an urge I have. For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is. That's putting myself out there, maybe even more than taking my shirt off.

The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial—the truth only dies when true stories are untold.

Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself.

I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all these phrases refer. But I have never yet found the story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories?

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

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.

The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true story.

To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.

All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.

By now, everyone I know is one of seven strangers, inevitably hoping to represent a predefined demographic and always failing horribly. The Read World is the real world is The Real World is the read world. It’s the same true story, even when it isn’t.

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

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?