Books Quote by Ayana Mathis

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to…

— Orson Scott Card

More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

— Candice Millard

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.

— Anonymous

Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.

— Anne Lamott

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

— Georges Simenon

I find it interesting that authors of fantasy and science fiction novels are rarely asked if their books are based on their personal experiences,…

— Malinda Lo

Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.

— Sue Monk Kidd

I think everybody came into it with the understanding that they would go through an experience that is literally not by the book, that…

— Oren Moverman

Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.

— Laurence Overmire

When viewers watch shows, they should relate to the story. There has to be a blend between reality and fiction.

— Vatsal Sheth

I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making…

— Julia Glass

If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited.

— Stef Penney