Life Quote by Ellen Hopkins

“Real life is never so neat as the stories we choose to tell about it”

— Ken Dornstein

“Real life is a story too, only much more complicated...the world is a library and you'll never get to read the same book twice.”

— Chris Wooding

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

— Mikhail Iossel

“Real life doesn't grant us many of the more than useful possibilities people can come out with in fiction.”

— Camilo Gomes Jr

“That’s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Stories are full of people who find that, in extreme situations, they’re capable of so much more than they imagined they were. Real life…

— Amethyst Marie

“For every work of fiction, the author inserts a bit of themself to make the story seem more real. For every work of nonfiction,…

— A.K. Wallace

“When you're inside your own story, you don't see things like a reader. You don't see your life in tidy paragraphs and chapters.”

— Jerry Spinelli

“What makes a truly good story is its ability to be close enough to reality to be believable, yet far enough away to keep…

— Rosi S. Phillips

“Most stories are based on something real.”

— Paula Weston

The telling of stories creates the real world.

— Alberto Manguel

“What this requires of us is that we don’t get tangled up in the living, even when we in fact feel woefully tangled up.…

— Cheryl Strayed