Amount Quote by Mary Kay Zuravleff

I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making…

— Julia Glass

Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.

— Simon Beaufoy

One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real…

— Joanne Harris

If you depict one home and the drama moving around one family, people love it because the characters become identifiable.

— Ekta Kapoor

When I am doing a fictional show, I become someone else. Reality shows keep you close to who you really are.

— Jasmin Bhasin

“Real life is real drama... Others are just a drama”

— Sai Jagannath Behera

Sometimes when people look at the work I've done with my family, they think it's autobiographical. But it really isn't. It's more about the…

— Ari Marcopoulos

I have always liked family-type dramas; I just think the dynamics in families make for some really interesting characters.

— Gina Bellman

The correlations between real life experience and the storylines in novels are never as direct or simple as they might seem.

— Ayana Mathis

Family dramas are tough, as a playwright. Most stories are about characters going on a trip or a new character coming to town, because…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

It's like a movie set, like my life is a movie set. These people, they all think this is real, but it's not.

— Brody Jenner

When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.

— Al Yankovic