Adventure Quote by Lev Grossman

“This is real life, my real life, and unfortunately you cannot put a happy ending in where it is not meant to be.”

— Anna Bloom

“Real life is just a never-ending string of compromises that you make in order to survive”

— Janelle Brown

“Unhappy endings might seem more realistic than happy ones, but reality often contained a streak of fantasy that realism lacked.”

— Salman Rushdie

“Life is better than any movie or TV show. In real life there is no plot and there are billions of characters.”

— Marc Pamittan

“If it’s a story I’m telling, then I have control over the ending. Then there will be an ending, to the story, and real…

— Margaret Atwood

“Real life isn't made up of heroes and villains. Just ordinary people making choices they have to live with.”

— Kat Kruger

“Just because life is hard and always ends in a bad way doesn't mean that all stories have to. Even if that's what they…

— James Patterson

“Real life is inefficient, disorganized, and sometimes haffling. It's also messy and cluttered with distractions that obscure the trajectory of story.”

— Ellen Hopkins

“Real life is never so neat as the stories we choose to tell about it”

— Ken Dornstein

“Yeah, episodic doesn't work. Your coolest character needs something big and meaningful to do. Otherwise, well, it's just narrative shit.”

— Don Roff

It's a challenge to express real life in dramatic terms. In an entirely "made-up" story, you are sometimes overwhelmed by the infinite possibilities.

— Daniel Clowes

“Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to”

— James Patterson