Convincing Quote by Neil Gaiman Download Open image “Real life doesn't have to be convincing, but fiction does.” — Neil Gaiman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Convincing Doe Fiction Life Real Real life
Real life isn't required to be logical, but fiction has to make sense. — Leigh Michaels Copy Share Image
The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Fiction must convince our bodies for it to have any chance of convincing our minds. — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
Rule one of reading other people's stories is that whenever you say 'well that's not convincing' the author tells you that's the bit that… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story. — Katherine Center 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
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Like all sentient beings, Fat Charlie had a weirdness quotient. For some days the needle had been over in the red, occasionally banging jerkily… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“[T]hey could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware of, but… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
Ultimately the most challenging thing, always, is to just be convincing — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the… — Frank Murphy Copy Share Image
You make a movie and it's like convincing people to go on an expedition with you. You think you know where it's going to… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
When you work with a good actor, there is this natural rapport and chemistry that develops over time. That chemistry helps your characters come… — Aamir Khan Copy Share Image
While testimonies can come as dramatic manifestations, they usually do not. Sometimes people think they need to have an experience like Joseph Smith's vision… — Allan F. Packer Copy Share Image
When I learned that aliens really do exist, I wasn't too surprised. But what did shock me when I started investigating extra-terrestrial reports a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
I've always been very good at convincing people. For instance, if I arrive in an airport and I'm in economy, I can always convince… — Emmanuelle Seigner Copy Share Image
Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only… — Ben Nelson Copy Share Image
Jon M. Chu is one of the most creative, convincing humans you'll ever meet. — Henry Golding Copy Share Image
One of their major initiatives was getting all officers on Facebook. So the question is, why are these people who are there to train… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
A photograph presents itself not only as a visual representation, but as evidence, more convincing than a painting because of the unimpeachable mechanical means… — John Updike Copy Share Image
