Books Quote by Candice Millard

Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

— Aristotle

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

— Sara Sheridan

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

The correlations between real life experience and the storylines in novels are never as direct or simple as they might seem.

— Ayana Mathis

Real life is crazier than fiction.

— Lauren Bowles

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality…

— Michel Houellebecq

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.

— John Grisham

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

— Anne Lamott

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

— Mikhail Iossel

A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.

— Chris Ware

I think real life is weirder than fiction.

— Kim Shattuck