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I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.
ANTONIA FRASER![]()
But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?
JIMMY CONNORS Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't...
NICOLE CHRISTIE![]()
But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. I...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.
LAURENCE OVERMIRE Why be a phony, when you can be the real thing?
LESLIE MIKLOSY![]()
Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey fr...
SIRI HUSTVEDT I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real sci...
LALLA WARD![]()
It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'...
TERRY PRATCHETT Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read somethi...
HELEN HUMPHREYS I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fict...
KATE ADIE Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.
MIKE D![]()
I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.
RANBIR KAPOOR Why do you pretend, when you can make it real? We like pretending to be someone else but the truth w...
ANN MARIE AGUILAR![]()
If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the w...
HAROLD BRODKEY Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more t...
CLARK ZLOTCHEW Real life doesn't grant us many of the more than useful possibilities people can come out with in fi...
CAMILO GOMES JR.![]()
Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read....
GABRIELLE ZEVIN![]()
When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.
TERRY PRATCHETT Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only strang...
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only stranger...
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST![]()
A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.
TIM O'BRIEN The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.
TODD STRASSER Life can be so interesting,but it will become so uninteresting when we fill it with unbelief.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Why do women love to read about sexually aggressive billionaire bad boy alpha males but condemn the ...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY![]()
I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I d...
DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK![]()
There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certa...
JUNOT DIAZ![]()
As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself.
GINNIFER GOODWIN![]()
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will...
S. I. HAYAKAWA![]()
My language is a feel-thinking language, feeling and thinking at once, that is why it is a celebrati...
EDUARDO GALEANO![]()
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
MARK TWAIN![]()
I think if you're gonna do something as silly and lighthearted as entertainment, then why not be...
CHELSEA HANDLER![]()
I don't tend to write straight dramas where real life just impinges. But because I don't, wh...
JOSS WHEDON It's real life. It's interesting to see the guts, not just the finished product but what goes in and...
DONNIE EDWARDS![]()
Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life
SIMONE WEIL![]()
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
SIMONE WEIL![]()
When you read anything especially a story in the bible, begin to ask and process how you can begin t...
SUNDAY ADELAJA![]()
You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done we...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment.
CHI MCBRIDE![]()
American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.
GARY SHTEYNGART Some people I know are about as real as a book of fiction.
LARSS VINCENT MCKEVITT![]()
Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it w...
PATRICIA BRIGGS I don't read Science Fiction.
BRENT SPINER How is it every time we're talking about the real world, you manage to bring up fantasy, and every t...
JEFF ZENTNER Why do you pretend to care when you can care for real?
MITTA XININDLU![]()
Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
KHALED HOSSEINI![]()
Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
DAVID BALDACCI![]()
Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
DAVID BALDACCI![]()
I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germin...
ALEKSANDAR HEMON![]()
Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer ...
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE![]()
In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Why use profanity in real life and writing? Because sometimes 'darn it' just doesn't cut it.
JACQUELINE PATRICKS![]()
I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an i...
JOHN GREEN I don't read fiction at all.
BRENT SPINER In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.
MIRIAM TOEWS![]()
I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.
ANNIE BARROWS![]()
Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.
MARY ANN SHAFFER In general, fiction is divided into 'literary fiction' and 'commercial fiction.' Nob...
NANCY KRESS![]()
If I'm desperate, I'll read anything. But even when I can be choosy, I still have no hard-an...
SONYA HARTNETT Why bother to go through life if you can't do interesting shit?
JOHN SANDFORD![]()
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doe...
NEIL GAIMAN Most of the fiction on the California Gold Rush makes it sound like one grand, boyish adventure. How...
LAURENCE YEP![]()
Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers.
MICHAEL MORPURGO 'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it cre...
LANCE REDDICK Something that seemed to be a real trend this summer was the disproportionate strength of non-fictio...
BOB REED![]()
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL![]()
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
VICTOR FRANKL Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
VIKTOR FRANKL![]()
I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired,...
ANITA BROOKNER![]()
Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD![]()
I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
BEBE REXHA![]()
Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story.
JAMES DASHNER I can't invent stuff, but the techniques fiction writers use to create character and suspense can al...
TRACY KIDDER![]()
I like to read fiction, and I particularly enjoy reading young adult fiction. But I also read childr...
JAMES HOWE His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.
GERALD CLARKE Anyone can be happy when life is good, but the real lesson to learn is.... how to be happy when time...
GEORGE M. ETHERIDGE I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
A. E. VAN VOGT![]()
All American fiction could be classified as immigrant fiction.
JHUMPA LAHIRI![]()
Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.
LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie role...
CHRIS TUCKER![]()
Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as seriou...
SIRI HUSTVEDT I think printed fiction is what women read.
CHARLOTTE LAMB I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and wo...
NEIL CROSS Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as ...
MARGARET A. EDWARDS I do understand my limitations as a fiction writer, which is why my novels are always going to be cl...
GEOFF DYER When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a...
SALLY MANN This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.
DAVID GEMMELL Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting
WILLIAM RANDOLPH Just be yourself and forget all of the stuff you read in 'GQ' magazine.
CHRIS PRATT And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS You mean old books?"
"Stories written before space travel but about space travel."
<...
PHILIP K. DICK![]()
Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
JOHN CHEEVER![]()
I think that what made people accept Starbuck as a woman was that she was just such an interesting c...
KATEE SACKHOFF I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more ...
GARDNER DOZOIS I’ve always wondered why love has to be so full of conflict and strife. Why can’t love be simple...
BELLA ANDRE![]()
The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, whe...
SUFJAN STEVENS![]()
Books are more real when you read them outside.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER![]()
Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read q...
JOHN HUME![]()
Everyone in this world is somehow connected. So why not just be nice to everybody.
RICHARD SIMMONS
ANTONIA FRASER
But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story? JIMMY CONNORS Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't...
NICOLE CHRISTIE
But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. I... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.
LAURENCE OVERMIRE Why be a phony, when you can be the real thing?
LESLIE MIKLOSY
Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey fr... SIRI HUSTVEDT I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real sci...
LALLA WARD
It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'... TERRY PRATCHETT Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read somethi...
HELEN HUMPHREYS I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fict...
KATE ADIE Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.
MIKE D
I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life. RANBIR KAPOOR Why do you pretend, when you can make it real? We like pretending to be someone else but the truth w...
ANN MARIE AGUILAR
If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the w... HAROLD BRODKEY Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more t...
CLARK ZLOTCHEW Real life doesn't grant us many of the more than useful possibilities people can come out with in fi...
CAMILO GOMES JR.
Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read.... GABRIELLE ZEVIN
When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves. TERRY PRATCHETT Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only strang...
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST Try to be conspicuously accurate in everything, pictures as well as text. Truth is not only stranger...
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST
A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written. TIM O'BRIEN The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.
TODD STRASSER Life can be so interesting,but it will become so uninteresting when we fill it with unbelief.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Why do women love to read about sexually aggressive billionaire bad boy alpha males but condemn the ...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY
I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I d... DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK
There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certa... JUNOT DIAZ
As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself. GINNIFER GOODWIN
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will... S. I. HAYAKAWA
My language is a feel-thinking language, feeling and thinking at once, that is why it is a celebrati... EDUARDO GALEANO
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. MARK TWAIN
I think if you're gonna do something as silly and lighthearted as entertainment, then why not be... CHELSEA HANDLER
I don't tend to write straight dramas where real life just impinges. But because I don't, wh... JOSS WHEDON It's real life. It's interesting to see the guts, not just the finished product but what goes in and...
DONNIE EDWARDS
Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life SIMONE WEIL
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. SIMONE WEIL
When you read anything especially a story in the bible, begin to ask and process how you can begin t... SUNDAY ADELAJA
You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done we... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment.
CHI MCBRIDE
American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it. GARY SHTEYNGART Some people I know are about as real as a book of fiction.
LARSS VINCENT MCKEVITT
Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it w... PATRICIA BRIGGS I don't read Science Fiction.
BRENT SPINER How is it every time we're talking about the real world, you manage to bring up fantasy, and every t...
JEFF ZENTNER Why do you pretend to care when you can care for real?
MITTA XININDLU
Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period. KHALED HOSSEINI
Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other? DAVID BALDACCI
Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other? DAVID BALDACCI
I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germin... ALEKSANDAR HEMON
Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer ... CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying. MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Why use profanity in real life and writing? Because sometimes 'darn it' just doesn't cut it.
JACQUELINE PATRICKS
I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an i... JOHN GREEN I don't read fiction at all.
BRENT SPINER In writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences.
MIRIAM TOEWS
I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.
ANNIE BARROWS
Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life. MARY ANN SHAFFER In general, fiction is divided into 'literary fiction' and 'commercial fiction.' Nob...
NANCY KRESS
If I'm desperate, I'll read anything. But even when I can be choosy, I still have no hard-an... SONYA HARTNETT Why bother to go through life if you can't do interesting shit?
JOHN SANDFORD
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doe... NEIL GAIMAN Most of the fiction on the California Gold Rush makes it sound like one grand, boyish adventure. How...
LAURENCE YEP
Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers. MICHAEL MORPURGO 'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it cre...
LANCE REDDICK Something that seemed to be a real trend this summer was the disproportionate strength of non-fictio...
BOB REED
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives. VIKTOR E. FRANKL
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives. VICTOR FRANKL Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
VIKTOR FRANKL
I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired,... ANITA BROOKNER
Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading ... ORSON SCOTT CARD
I just want to be myself and be real and be funny. BEBE REXHA
Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story. JAMES DASHNER I can't invent stuff, but the techniques fiction writers use to create character and suspense can al...
TRACY KIDDER
I like to read fiction, and I particularly enjoy reading young adult fiction. But I also read childr... JAMES HOWE His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.
GERALD CLARKE Anyone can be happy when life is good, but the real lesson to learn is.... how to be happy when time...
GEORGE M. ETHERIDGE I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
A. E. VAN VOGT
All American fiction could be classified as immigrant fiction. JHUMPA LAHIRI
Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life. LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie role...
CHRIS TUCKER
Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as seriou... SIRI HUSTVEDT I think printed fiction is what women read.
CHARLOTTE LAMB I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and wo...
NEIL CROSS Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as ...
MARGARET A. EDWARDS I do understand my limitations as a fiction writer, which is why my novels are always going to be cl...
GEOFF DYER When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a...
SALLY MANN This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.
DAVID GEMMELL Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting
WILLIAM RANDOLPH Just be yourself and forget all of the stuff you read in 'GQ' magazine.
CHRIS PRATT And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS You mean old books?"
"Stories written before space travel but about space travel."
<...
PHILIP K. DICK
Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction. JOHN CHEEVER
I think that what made people accept Starbuck as a woman was that she was just such an interesting c... KATEE SACKHOFF I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more ...
GARDNER DOZOIS I’ve always wondered why love has to be so full of conflict and strife. Why can’t love be simple...
BELLA ANDRE
The best fiction is geared towards conflict. We learn most about our characters through tension, whe... SUFJAN STEVENS
Books are more real when you read them outside. MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read q... JOHN HUME
Everyone in this world is somehow connected. So why not just be nice to everybody. RICHARD SIMMONS
