Communication Quote by Lynne Tillman

The good thing about writing a true story is that you don't have to worry about giving an impression of realism.

— Laurent Binet

Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real life' conversation-would…

— Elizabeth Bowen

There is no such thing as realistic dialogue. If you [simply recorded] the real conversation of any people and played it back from the…

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz

The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.

— Todd Strasser

When viewers watch shows, they should relate to the story. There has to be a blend between reality and fiction.

— Vatsal Sheth

“take details from “real life” into fiction and make them believable requires careful work: creating characters the reader can believe would do the unbelievable…

— Dorothy Allison

The telling of stories creates the real world.

— Alberto Manguel

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.

— Joey Skaggs

There was no short answer to this; like so much else, it was a long story. But what really makes any story real is…

— Sarah Dessen

“Most stories are based on something real.”

— Paula Weston

The real problem is arranging that experience in a way that tells a story, which is just incredible enough to be interesting, but credible…

— Richard Helms

My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not good enough…

— Wolf Blitzer