Becoming Quote by Eula Biss

“over time, staying real becomes the work of keeping our actions in the world connected to the truth of our inner being, allowing our…

— Mark Nepo

“I lack the disposition for realism. . . . as soon as I have managed to put together a suitable number of realistic people…

— Torgny Lindgren

“It’s my job really, to help you, my reader, in accepting things as real that aren’t. Most books try to get you to accept…

— Tony Burgess

“I enter the world called real as one enters a mist. Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes…

— Julien Green

“The real world reveals itself like surprise gifts on our doorstep, special moments that seem above and beyond the reality of others. These times…

— Christopher Hawke

Being real is someone who can be themselves with no regrets and please themselves. and not someone who has to watch their every move…

— Yas

When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself.

— Norman Mailer

“Being real doesn't mean being reckless, it means allowing La Voz Mitologica, The Mythological Voice, to speak. One does that by shutting off the…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“Reality is a very subjective affair. I can only define it as a kind of gradual accumulation of information; and as specialization. If we…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“In order for us to become Real, we must become lovers of real life in all its complexity and uncertainty.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“I am an idealist who believes in reality, and who, therefore, in all i write strive to be real, to keep both my own…

— Jack London