Convincing Quote by Neil Gaiman

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

Beware of "the real world". A speaker's apeal to it is always an invitation not to challenge his tacit assumptions.

— Edsger Dijkstra

Realness is something in such short supply; you can't believe anything anyone is saying when you turn on the television, and then during the…

— Alaska

When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.

— Joey Skaggs

You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

— Neil Gaiman

“This ‘reality’ is so obviously unreal. It’s like bad screenplay writing. No matter how many times you see the same tired script playing out…

— Sol Luckman

I've been in so many writing workshops where someone hands in a story, and when the other writers in the workshop are giving feedback,…

— Jesmyn Ward

Real isn't what they try to tell you. Time isn't. Grown-ups hammer down all these markers, bells, schedules, coffee-breaks, to stake down time so…

— Tana French

I've told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that everybody is…

— Gus Van Sant

People can sense when someone is fake or real on TV.

— Joey Fatone

What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When you write about real life, there's always a chance that somebody involved is going to see it and get upset.

— Denis Leary