“I'm finding, as I get older, that I'm not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life - redemption does happen, and it's cool when it does - but I find myself getting leery of my desire for it in stories (especially my own).” BelieveMeanDoeRealStoriesHappensDesireI BelieveMy OwnFindingsI Believe InBelieverReal LifeRedemption Author:George Saunders
“When you have a movie about people landing from planet Neptune, you suspend disbelief. I totally get it. But I like doing things that happen in real life.” PeopleRealHappensPlanetsReal LifeDisbeliefLandingNeptune Author:Will Gluck
“What healthy religion is saying is that the real life is both now and later. You have to taste the Real first of all now. The constant pattern, however, is that most Christians either move both backwards (religion as nostalgia) or into the distant future (religion as carrot on the stick) and consistently avoid where everything really happens and mattersthe present moment.” FirstsRealMatterMomentsHappensChristianMovingLife IsFaithHealthyTasteConstantSticksPatternsNostalgiaReal LifePresent MomentConsistentlyBackwardsCarrotsNow And Later Author:Richard Rohr
“When you talk to people who have been in combat, there's a sensory overload that happens. The color becomes vivid. Sounds become more pronounced. People talk about how, for them, the war was technicolor and real life was black and white after the war.” PeopleHas BeensWarRealHappensSoundBlackWhiteColorReal LifeCombatBlack And WhiteVividSensoryOverload Author:David Ayer
“Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.” RealHappensNovelHappenedReal Life Author:Anne Lamott
“Audiences and critics they don't like seeing what happens in real life. Why do you think comedies make all the money at the box office? People want to go and laugh. I can understand that.” PeopleThinkingWantI CanRealHappensAudienceLaughingComedySeeingOfficeCriticsBoxesReal LifeBox Office Author:Channing Tatum
“Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.” RealHappensLiteratureWeakReal LifeUnexpectedLiableImprobable Book:The Twelfth Hour Source: The Twelfth Hour