Tall Tales Quotes

It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones.

People love to yammer on about things that aren't real.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

I've never made up events, but I've always been a big exaggerator. It's written on my humorist license that I'm allowed to do that.

Nobody could pile on the applesauce like Mickey. He was the best liar in the world - well, Frank Sinatra can tell a good story, too, but I don't believe he was ever unfaithful to me.

Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.

And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

When I was really young, I used to lie a lot. Now I get paid to do it.

Toad, with no one to check his statements or to criticize in an unfriendly spirit, rather let himself go. Indeed, much that he related belonged more properly to the category of what-might-have-happened-had-I-only-thought-of-it-in-time-instead-of-ten-minutes-afterwards. Those are always the best and raciest adventures; and why should they not be truly ours, as much as the somewhat inadequate things that really come off?

I've always liked telling stories. That probably came from my dad, who definitely had the gift of gab and who wove a kind of personal folklore about his youth - stories full of adventure and ghosts and wild antics.

Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting.

[Some people think] that storytelling is telling jokes. So they have to be discouraged! Then others think that storytelling-is like an encounter group . . .

My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability to lie with a straight face as a child.

I've always been into having stories told to me. I was a voracious reader, my father was also a teller of tales; and the kind of Baron Munchausen proxy of a tall tale was much more interesting than a true tale.

People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.

You know, people make up a lot of different stories about a lot of different things.

When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.

I think I was probably always a liar; I just get paid for it now.

Because I've heard so many stories that I don't know which one is the most popular. But I do know which is the least popular. The truth.

Nothing anyone says in a bar is true.

Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.

People say, "Look, your book [Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty's Favorite Uncle] is about tall tales." And I said, "No, you don't understand, OK? The book is tall tales, OK, by me. But look, those tall tales are my life, OK? And look, I added some spices in there. That's the five percent. You know the one about the wolves chasing me? The only thing about that - they wasn't wolves, they was coyotes".

Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.

How easy it is to tell tales!

There are always going to be ridiculous rumours.