Doe Quote by C. S. Lewis

A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.

— Isaac Babel

The benefit of having a story that takes place in the real world is that you don't have to invent the real world. It…

— Travis Beacham

The real truth - like anything, you have an idea about something you might write and it changes. People reflect on it or you…

— Matt Ross

Real life is a story, too, only much more complicated. It’s still got a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everyone follows the same…

— Chris Wooding

When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For…

— Paul Auster

The telling of stories creates the real world.

— Alberto Manguel

“Real life is often more literary than the works of literature. That’s because it doesn’t have to appear credible.”

— Mikhail Iossel

“We hold this myth to be potential Not self-evident but equational Another Dimension Of another kind of Living Life”

— Sun Ra

Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse.

— John Crowley

Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.

— Anonymous

“There is no picture- or theory-independent concept of reality.”

— Stephen Hawking

“....there is no truth beyond illusion....between 'reality' on the one hand, and the point where reality comes into being, where two very different surfaces…

— Tartt Donna