Believable Quote by Ray Bradbury

“What makes a truly good story is its ability to be close enough to reality to be believable, yet far enough away to keep…

— Rosi S. Phillips

“We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much…

— Patrick Ness

The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

“A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. The story should never be made up of improbable incidents; there should be nothing…

— Aristotle

“Believe it or not, stories don’t function in terms of beginnings, middles and ends, they simply have beginnings, middles, and ends.”

— FILM CRIT HULK

“What makes a good story I'd it's ability to be close enough to reality to be believable, and far enough away to keep you…

— Rosi S. Phillips

“For most of human history, myths have survived through changing times because they did not demand to be seen as a literal retelling of…

— Jonah Sachs

I know that some of the things which happen in these stories are not likely, but sometimes I wonder if they are not possible…

— Arthur Bradford

Real stories - whether in pure fiction or historical - have a certain indefinable power; we are endlessly curious about the past and hungry…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.

— Peter Morgan

While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

— Aristotle

“Everyone had a story he believed was worthy of a best-seller; for me, reality was rarely interesting enough to take the place of fiction.”

— Ben Mezrich