I'm following a real event and real people.

Following Real Madrid, I support Porto.

— Pepe

“Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it’s then, its…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

In fact, I think every book I've written has been inspired by a real event.

— Laura Lippman

Concerts have to be seen as a real event for which the aim is to try and feed everybody.

— Evelyn Glennie

I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

“The paradoxical intercourse of audience and celebrity. The suppressed awareness that the whole reason ordinary people found celebrity fascinating was that they were not,…

— David Foster Wallace

“But it will make mistakes," she says. "Hadoop will probably get us from a hundred thousand buildings down to, like, five thousand." "So we're…

— Robin Sloan

“I drink beer not to get drunk or because i have stress, i drink beer just because i want to share good ideas with…

— Ntambara Sylvestre Owen Berbason

“we shouldn’t surrender our real world perception to a false reality too much or we may suffer the inevitable consequences of deluded thinking. Technology…

— M.P. Neary

Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my characters on real people. Emphatically, no. And sort of, yes.

— Brent Weeks

What I strive to do is make my characters seem like real people so that the reader experiences them as people - that's something…

— Jaume Cabre

What sometimes annoys me about the arts is increasingly that we have to put real people on screen or stage.

— Zawe Ashton

Fat girls aren’t real people.

— Tucker Max

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any…

— Lou Reed

Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of…

— Svetlana Alexievich