“Stories are a different kind of true.”
Source: Room (novel) (2010)
Context: "Are stories true?"
"Which ones?"
"The mermaid mother and Hansel and Gretel and all them."
"Well," says Ma, "not literally."
"What's—"
"They're magic, they're not about real people walking around today."
"So they're fake?"
"No, no. Stories are a different kind of true."
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Irish novelist, playwright, short-story writer and historian 1969Related quotes
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