“Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.” RealHappensNovelHappenedReal Life Author:Anne Lamott
“In real life, as well as in experiments, people can come to believe things that never really happened.” PeopleBelieveWellsRealHappenedReal LifeExperiments Author:Elizabeth Loftus
“Apparently we're now in a state where most ads are full of people looking at us in a way that would heat us up down to our toes if it happened in real life, and we don't think anything of it.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayRealStatesHappenedReal LifeHeatAdsToes Author:Max Barry
“I find that the more I depend on real life, the less interesting the story is. It's much more common for me to take something that almost-happened, or I wish had happened, and then follow that possibility.” RealStoriesWishInterestingCommonHappenedPossibilityDependsReal Life Author:Sarah Dessen
“I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.” KnowsMeanRealHappenedCrazyReal LifeAbstract Author:Jonah Hill
“Filmmaking is about moments. In real life, things might take six months, a year, but [in filmmaking] you have to create the moment where it happened.” YearsRealMomentsMightHappenedMonthsSixReal LifeFilmmakingSix Months Author:Morten Tyldum
“I'm not making a movie about the real people. I'm making a movie about what they did, and what happened to them. But I will create characters so that I can have the freedom to make them say and do what I want. The real-life journalists were fine with that.” PeopleWantI CanRealCharacterHappenedFineReal LifeJournalist Author:Richard Shepard
“Memoirs have at their heart a content that "happened" to someone in real life. Is that what you are itching at in your question, so that if you are a reviewer or you are writing a critique you might feel as if you are stepping on someone's actual face?” IfsFeelsWritingHeartRealMightFacesLife IsHappenedReal LifeMemoirCritiqueReviewersItching Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“I had to do things to myself on the page that had been done to me in real life. I had to try and drown myself in the bath. You have to do that. And the impulse is to rescue yourself and to spare the reader, but I can't rescue myself. And why should I spare the reader when nobody spared me? It's telling people what happened.” PeopleShouldTryingI CanRealDoneHappenedReaderPagesReal LifeImpulseRescueShould ISparesBaths Author:Damian Barr
“I'm all about nonfiction. I rarely read fiction. I like to read about things that really happened, facts, real life situations. That's what inspires me.” RealFactsFictionSituationHappenedInspireReal LifeNonfiction Author:Phil Keoghan