“More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.” RealSeemsLife IsNovelRichPagesComplexesReal LifeUnpredictable Author:Candice Millard
“Reading aloud sounds like a good idea, but honestly, it doesn't work very well. Good dialogue in a book doesn't actually bear much resemblance to real-life dialogue. For example, if you've ever seen a word-for-word transcript of people talking, it doesn't read off the page very well. The trick is to make it *seem* like it's being spoken, not to make it speakable.” PeopleIfsWellsBookIdeasRealSeemsReadingSoundTalkingExampleBearsPagesHonestlyReal LifeTricksDialogueGood IdeasResemblancePeople TalkingReading Aloud Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“Clifford paints true-to-life characters with the same gritty touch as the best of Dennis Lehane. Straightforward and edgy, Lamentation gnaws with nail-biting tension on every page. A must-read for contemporary hardboiled mystery fans who appreciate the type of terse dialogue and real life conflicts and settings Elmore Leonard so richly brought to life.” RealCharacterMysteryFansTypeConflictPagesAppreciatePaintReal LifeSettingContemporaryDialogueSettingsTensionNailsStraightforwardEdgyTrue LifeBitingLamentation Author:Robert Dugoni
“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
“We know that from the studies, like the Gilens and Page study out of Northwestern and Princeton, if you didn't know it from real life. We're not moving forward, we're moving backwards, and the clock is ticking on this, whether you look at climate or the expanding wars.” IfsKnowsLooksWarRealMovingStudyPagesClimateReal LifeMoving ForwardClockBackwardsExpandingPrincetonClock Is TickingNorthwestern Author:Jill Stein
“Kiran says (the shelf) is full of stories. If it is, then I like fairy stories. Fairy stories are fair. In them wishes are granted, words are enchanted, the honest and brave make it safely through to the last page and the baddies either have to give up their wickedness for ever and ever, no going back, or get ruthlessly written out of the story, which they hardly ever survive. Also in fairy stories there are hardly any of those half-good half-bad people that crop up so constantly in real life and are so difficult to believe in.” PeopleIfsGivingBelieveRealStoriesLastsWishDifficultHalfWrittenHonestGiving UpPagesFairsBraveReal LifeGrantedFairyShelvesWickednessCropsBad PeopleEnchantedFairy StoriesBaddies Author:Hilary McKay
“What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world?” PeopleWorldMadeRealTenPagesReal LifeUnhappyReal WorldSlapEscapismMonotonyInkdeath Author:Cornelia Funke