Anticlimax Quote by Haruki Murakami

Real life is a story, too, only much more complicated. It’s still got a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everyone follows the same…

— Chris Wooding

“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

“That's the big difference between [the BookWorld] and [the RealWorld]," said Plum. "When things happen after a randomly pointless event, all that follows is…

— Jasper Fforde

The telling of stories creates the real world.

— Alberto Manguel

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality…

— Michel Houellebecq

Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world

— Brent Spiner

The point of what I do is that it doesn't really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you,…

— James Frey

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

— Ann Brashares

“...a novel for me is a pretext, a way of starting up and sustaining a complicated and many layered inner exchange, a to-and-fro which…

— Sven Birkerts

The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a break when you need to.

— Liane Moriarty

…everything has a narrative, really, and if you can’t understand a story and relate to it, figure out how you fit inside it, you’re…

— Catherynne M. Valente

A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.

— Shekhar Kapur