Being real Quote by Grant Morrison

Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

— Rodman Philbrick

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.

— Ernest Hemingway

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

— Esther Forbes

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

— Ernest Hemingway

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

— W. H. Auden

By the time I was writing the second book, my life had changed rather dramatically, thanks to the intervention of television, and I needed…

— John Hodgman

The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.

— Todd Strasser

If it's fiction, then it better be true.

— Sherman Alexie

The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the book.

— Richard Dawkins

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

— Jodi Picoult

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

— Cornelia Funke

Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense.

— Ray Bradbury