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Girl I know it's real cause I've been around it. You only want what's real you just never found it — Drake
When I see ya baby girl, I miss feelin on ya. I miss everything that's real about ya and that's everything about ya, that's just… — Drake
She think I'm the realest out and I say 'damn that makes 2 of us'. — Drake
To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in real life and… — Louis Auchincloss
Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be seen… — James A. Baldwin
Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin. — Stanley Schmidt
I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether;… — P.G. Wodehouse
The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real ... for a moment… — George R. R. Martin
What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees into paper or… — John Green
Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love' is one of… — David Foster Wallace
Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your… — Anne Enright
Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of,… — Cassandra Clare
Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real life' conversation-would be… — Elizabeth Bowen
As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable… — Ivy Compton-Burnett
Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the bit that wasn't… — Neil Gaiman
Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent. — Ernest Hemingway
It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write. — Sinclair Lewis
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. (Notice this means that if you are interested… — C.S. Lewis
You get a real person down there and his talking will take care of itself. — Flannery O'Connor
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility. — Katherine Paterson
They must be real people. And this means that every word in every line of speech must be accurate and full of some kind of… — John Steinbeck
I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to. — Fay Weldon
When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood carver's gouge, a surgeon's probe.… — Annie Dillard
My work is writing, but my real work is being. — William Saroyan
Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined… — John Steinbeck

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