Chance Quote by Denis Leary

I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

— Michel Houellebecq

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

— Anonymous

If you want to write what the world is about, you have to write details...real life is in the dishes. Real life is pushing…

— Anna Quindlen

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

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I…

— Tayari Jones

The thing about real life is that important events don't announce themselves... Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a…

— Edith Schaeffer

Truth be told, I hear stories every day that would make you say, 'If you put that in a movie, you wouldn't believe it.'…

— Lynn Shelton

I'm always careful about the thing I'm writing to make sure a viewer can imagine it happening to themselves.

— Asghar Farhadi

I feel like when you tell people's real-life stories prior to them getting introduced to the audience, people have that connection, kind of have…

— Darby Allin

I've never written about a situation involving real people that I haven't directly taken part in. I've never made things up about other people.…

— Marie Calloway

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets…

— Caroline B. Cooney

For me, everyone I write of is real. I have little true say in what they want, what they do or end up as…

— Tanith Lee