“In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.” — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I always enjoyed being a villain more, probably because you get to do and say a lot of things you wouldn't do… — Beth Phoenix Copy Share Image
“It is the case that, albeit to a lesser extent, all fictions make their readers live "the impossible", taking them out of… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
My life is now a constant assessment of whether what's happening in real life is more entertaining than what's happening on my… — Damien Fahey Copy Share Image
I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world… — John Searles Copy Share Image
We all want to live forever, but we don't want to suck blood to do it, right? I think people like to… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
My body isn't perfect I don't walk with confidence. I get into fights with my parents and friends. some nights I'd rather… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I think dreams are far better than reality. I lived my whole life with my partner in my dreams but in real… — Shivam Chaudhary Copy Share Image
We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
It was good but it was just a tiny bit uncomfortable because it was a day of lying in the bushes and… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate. — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
The sneak-peeks you get off the top are of them in their real life. You're more invested, you know both of them,… — Kristin Lehman Copy Share Image
I would love to do comedy. I think I'm funny and that comedy is my strong suit, at least in real life.… — Evan Peters Copy Share Image
I have a new show now called 'The Bridge,' where I play a guy who's a real-life guy. My character's based on… — Aaron Douglas Copy Share Image
“The day you help or give someone anything without any selfish expectations or ulterior motives...is the day your real life begins.” — Joe Campos Copy Share Image
I think my whole deal was I didn't think other people had a right to an opinion. I think the problem I… — Randy Orton Copy Share Image
“Dr. Manning said he'd thought at first it might be sleeping sickness, or even narcolepsy, whatever that was, but - no, Pete… — Henry Kuttner Copy Share Image
“Back then I thought Mother Nature split the good guys from the bad guys with a fat black line. But the thing… — Kristen Hubbard Copy Share Image
The photographers I worked alongside loved the news cycle and the hustle and getting that front page of the newspaper. But I… — Daniel Berehulak Copy Share Image
Close and Open, are the two opposite of each other. Yet in real life we are Open to only those people with… — Aldyna Threesya Copy Share Image
We tend not to use the biggest resource in healthcare - the patients themselves. So I'm trying to figure out possible uses… — Lucien Engelen Copy Share Image
I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In real life, I'm not the center of attention; I'm in the back, and I listen. So when it comes to writing,… — Little Simz Copy Share Image
“Finding Grant however and living happily ever after was an illusion, a dream. Things like that didn’t happen to women like them.… — Shawn Reilly Copy Share Image
The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But real life is only one kind of life—there is also the life of the imagination. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I find it odd that, in real life people think I am funny but no one ever suspects that on the page!… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
It's very tough playing a real life character in a controversial story. — Mahima Chaudhry Copy Share Image
“real life, even in its suffering, is much more deeply rewarding than imagined life.” — William Paul Young Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is about moments. In real life, things might take six months, a year, but [in filmmaking] you have to create the… — Morten Tyldum Copy Share Image
“She could make dream-worlds of her own – but no dream-world would satisfy her now. She wanted some explanation of this hard,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“On August 15, 2008, Pete Cashmore, the founder of Mashable, the online guide to social media, weighed in. “Wouldn’t it be a… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“True love gives without conditions, but never loses itself True love is one of the most precious feelings we can experience in… — Jan Jansen Easy Branches Copy Share Image
SO if love in fairy tales can't be real why is it in the end you seem to find the one boy… — Me Copy Share Image
This friend of mine said he was surprised to find that - I don't think it's quite a majority - a bigger… — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Then there was someone else I met, whose face and voice I can’t forget, and the memory of her is like a… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image