Life-on-earth Quote by John Irving

“It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than than…

— Richard Wright

“It had the austere simplicity of fiction rather than the tangled woof of fact.”

— Anonymous

“In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Unfortunately, the story wasn’t a novel, and it wasn’t fiction.”

— Aleatha Romig

“I gave up worrying about the principles of fiction writing when I realized that there weren't any.”

— Teri Louise Kelly

“Life might be stranger than fiction, but fiction allows many writers to more accurately portray life to their readers.”

— Jaime Buckley

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parents- were they the stuff of…

— Julian Barnes

“I also mistakenly believed that the scariest stories came from imagination, not real life.”

— Jodi Picoult

“Don't you think it would be interesting if you could read the story of your life - written perfectly truthfully by an omniscient author?”

— Jean Webster

“I did worry at one stage that all my stories seem to revolve around secrets, lies and self-deception, but then I realized that most…

— Jane Lovering

“Poor old things! How many interesting events you have been tucked away from! But, on the other hand, what a lot of boring you…

— Pansy

“I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much for reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what…

— Anne Tyler