A Quote by Anne Lamott

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

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
American - Novelist
Born: April 10, 1954

The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.

Carl Hiaasen

I mostly like documentaries, so I always think things that happened in real life are so astounding that why would you make a movie about something fake.

Jonah Hill

Even if it happened in real life - and oftentimes, especially if it happened in real life - it might not work in fiction.

Rachel Kushner

Being irrational and out of control is what happens in real life. Not cautiously choreographing your anger or your emotions, losing yourself in them is what happens in real life.

Margot Robbie

Novels ought to have hope; at least, American novels ought to have hope. French novels don't need to. We mostly win wars, they lose them. Of course, they did hide more Jews than many other countries, and this is a form of winning.

Anne Lamott

The correlations between real life experience and the storylines in novels are never as direct or simple as they might seem.

Ayana Mathis

I don't write historical novels but novels that wonder, 'And what if it happened in this way and not in this other one?'

Alvaro Enrigue

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.

Alice Hoffman

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist

Alice Hoffman

Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.

Chuck Klosterman

All things in my novels are real for me. Some western critics said that Garcia Marquez's novels are magic realism. However, I believe that Marquez must have experienced everything in his novels.

Haruki Murakami

In real life, as well as in experiments, people can come to believe things that never really happened.

Elizabeth Loftus

The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.

Charles Handy

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

Stieg Larsson

I guess that's the story of life: what you most fear never happens, but what you most yearn for never happens either. This is the difference between life and fiction. I suppose it's a good trade-off. But I'm not sure.

Philip K. Dick

Why do I like to write short stories? Well, I certainly didn't intend to. I was going to write a novel. And still! I still come up with ideas for novels. And I even start novels. But something happens to them. They break up. I look at what I really want to do with the material, and it never turns out to be a novel.

Alice Munro

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