Accurate Quote by John Steinbeck

“The only real people are the people who never existed, and if a novelist is base enough to go to life for his personages…

— Oscar Wilde

“No persons or events mentioned in this book should be confused with real persons or events. Reality is far too strange for that.”

— Jo Nesbø

“The people in books become more real to you than any one in actual life.”

— Christopher Morley

“No person or events mentioned in this book should be confused with real persons or events. Reality is far to strange for that.”

— Jo Nesbø

“…these books have their own integrity, their own identity. It is not about the words in there. You don’t need to read these books.…

— Stevan V. Nikolic

“I have lived so long within the circle of this book and with these characters that often it seems to me that the real…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

There are people who are always, I think, going to remain people of the book, to use another author's title, but people of the…

— Louise Erdrich

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

— Cornelia Funke

“The only real people are the people who never existed, and if a novelist is base enough to go to life for his personages…

— Oscar Wilde

I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'…

— Irvine Welsh

“Books are just words, yet arranged by the author so that they speak to your very soul.”

— Jason Ellis

Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view.

— Robert J. Sawyer