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John Edgar Wideman1
Fiction writer, memoirist, essayist 1941Related quotes
“All true stories end in death.”
Matthew Stover book Blade of Tyshalle
(X.6) Del Rey, p. 380
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
“All stories are true. But some of them never happened.”
James A. Owen The Search for the Red Dragon
Source: The Search for the Red Dragon
“All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind
Source: The Shadow of the Wind
“All stories are true,” Skarpi said. “But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. “More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.”
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 26, “Lanre Turned” (p. 203)