I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And…

Humor and profundity are not mutually exclusive, and life can be, and mostly is, serious and funny simultaneously. It's not always easy to capture…

— Tom Shroder

The world is changing from day to day; it is high time for our writers to take off their masks, look frankly, keenly, and…

— Lu Xun

Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep way, I…

— Kate Christensen

I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Songwriting is determined by me, man... just me. I write from real life, you...

— T-Pain

For me, everyone I write of is real. I have little true say in what they want, what they do or end up as…

— Tanith Lee

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

— Jackie Collins

No one can write their real religious life with pen or pencil. It is written only in actions, and its seal is our character,…

— Wilfred Grenfell

“It is difficult to write about a real person.”

— T.H. White

I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe…

— Nicole Krauss

“How do you write about something, even something real and painful-like suicide-when all of the writing that's been done on that subject has robbed…

— Jeffrey Eugenides The Marriage Plot

Use original detail in your writing. Life is so rich, if you can write down the real details of the way things were and…

— Natalie Goldberg

I like to write about real-life topics, and I like to write about different walks of life.

— Mark Foster

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.

— Emily Giffin