The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
“a montage of images playing in his head with the saturation turned way up so the colors were brighter than real life.” — Tim McBain Copy Share Image
What's normal? I think I'm normal... Maybe I'm abnormal because I get such a thrill from real life, just real life, everyday… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
I use Twitter to be my best self: fun, dateable. I don't get paranoid with Twitter, only in real life. I write… — Christine and the Queens Copy Share Image
In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If we show fictional characters doing cool stuff, then girls will want to be it in real life. — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
“Real life is actually a lot of boring things with occasional spikes of interest. Eddie Izzard” — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
Only Esmeralda was not weeping. Instead she wore that wooden look that whites mistake for churlishenss or indifference. Woodrew knew it was… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie roles you wanna pick. I… — Chris Tucker Copy Share Image
It's only in bad novels that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each other. In real… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
I know I have to do the right thing. And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Sometimes a scene may be about one thing, and it may end up still being about that, but the emotionality of it… — Kyle Chandler Copy Share Image
“I'll stand next to that fountain and wait until the Official find me. And when she does and asks me what I'm… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
When I want to render these fine nuances, I do not find them in the subject, but in the nature of women… — Gustave Moreau Copy Share Image
The two explorers are given fictional names. But as in real life, they travel to the Amazon roughly a generation apart, in… — Tom Cole Copy Share Image
“Victor Drayton knew that though his work hadn't been fully realised when he was alive it had presented huge economies of scale… — Jill Thrussell 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
I know that I present very - they say that I present very, very calm and very, very smart, very articulate, elegant.… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
“The hour or so after I woke up was my least favorite part of each day, because I spent it in the… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
“I was going to do it. I was really going to do something selfless for once in my life since Cat and… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“In stories, when someone behaves uncharacteristically, we take it as a meaningful, even pivotal moment. If we are surprised again and again,… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“These two things are almost all I want, but unfortunately, neither one is my strong suit. I am very strong on blame,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I was very far away. My real life had gone underground and could not be seen by anybody. The person at the… — Philip O Ceallaigh Copy Share Image
One thing that I really love about making records is that you can flow through fiction and non-fiction but, ultimately, everything's a… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
I swear in real life-probably too much-though I don't swear in front of my gran. We adapt to every situation. — Melanie Chisholm Copy Share Image
“If your love for another person doesn’t include loving yourself then your love is incomplete.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I actually have seven brothers in real life, and we're all very close in age. We basically go no more than two… — Norbert Leo Butz Copy Share Image
A basis for much of the pain women suffer in real life is they must somehow resolve their devotion to men. — Billy Cannon Copy Share Image
I have nothing nice to say about Chris Pratt, of course. He's probably the greatest hero of our time in real life,… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
There were lots of perceptions about me, right from being gay to casting couch to being a drunkard to getting violent, none… — Sajid Khan Copy Share Image
“I had a dream about you last night, you were the same piece of S**t I know and hate in real life.” — Rodney Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Your life is not a movie, Pat. Life is not a movie. You’re an Eagles fan. After watching so many NFL seasons… — mathew quick Copy Share Image
The world outside Twitter was great. I read books. I reconnected with people I knew from real life and met them for… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
All of the trickster, rascal characters that I write have the voice I aspire to. In real life, you can't be that… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“Real life isn't like that. It's one take, unedited, imperfect, and littered with mistakes that we must repeat until we get it… — Connor Franta Copy Share Image
The problem with fairy tales is that they set a girl up for disappointment. In real life, the Prince goes off with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Heroes in real life don't wear masks and capes. Sometimes they don't stand out at all. But real heroes can save a… — Victoria Arlen Copy Share Image
Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
