Fiction Quote by Leigh Michaels Download Open image “Real life isn't required to be logical, but fiction has to make sense.” — Leigh Michaels ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction Life Logical Make sense Real Real life
The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough. — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn't always have time to do or say the right things. — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense… It's insanity by definition. — Jo Beverley Copy Share Image
Most of my books are set in the American Midwest, where I have always lived. Midwesterners are lovely, down-to-earth people. The luxury of choosing… — Leigh Michaels Copy Share Image
“because there was a new face in the chorus, and rumor—in the person of his friend Aubrey—said she was a promising possibility as a… — Leigh Michaels Copy Share Image
Waiting for inspiration is like standing at the airport waiting for a train. — Leigh Michaels Copy Share Image
For readers worldwide, the attraction of romance novels seems to be that they provide hope, strength, and the assurance that happy endings are possible.… — Leigh Michaels Copy Share Image
“the rest of the company would have preferred it if her husband had been the guest at the Beckhams” — Leigh Michaels Copy Share Image
“numerous—my doctor shakes his head in despair. I hope you will find it possible to visit me for my birthday. I” — Leigh Michaels Copy Share Image
“his…demands?” And then she had held her breath as if seriously expecting Isabel to answer. And last night as Isabel passed a half-open bedroom… — Leigh Michaels Copy Share Image
“father had obviously been feeling particularly unsympathetic toward his wayward” — Leigh Michaels Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
