Always Quote by Katia Winter

Why should I read something someone made up when real events are so interesting?

— Frank Buckles

I find that the more I depend on real life, the less interesting the story is. It's much more common for me to take…

— Sarah Dessen

Sometimes just the facts of the matter make it interesting.

— Lee Friedlander

I like fictional stories - like, things that never happened but the seed of it starts as real.

— Jake M. Johnson

Something that's interesting is how my perspective on different events can change over time even though the events themselves haven't changed. As I get…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Almost anything that you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting.

— David Foster Wallace

The life of the mind is always more interesting than the real. The idea is often more interesting than the actual.

— Rob Chapman

I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read…

— Sam Heughan

I love it when real science finds a home in a fictional setting, where you take some real core idea of science and weave…

— Brian Greene

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The…

— Nigel Kneale

I try to write about things that actually happened so that I know it's real before I put it down on paper.

— John Prine