Books Quote by Shar-rae

Real life is real life, but a movie has to be contained, because it only lasts a certain amount of time and the world…

— Eva Victor

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.

— Anonymous

More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

— Candice Millard

Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.

— Anne Lamott

Movies are different from real life.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I think maybe written films are better than real films. You can see them in your head and yet everything is exactly as you…

— Hal Hartley

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

Truth be told, I hear stories every day that would make you say, 'If you put that in a movie, you wouldn't believe it.'…

— Lynn Shelton

Real life is crazier than fiction.

— Lauren Bowles

In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story.

— Katherine Center

I think real life is weirder than fiction.

— Kim Shattuck

All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.

— Kate Morton