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When I suddenly realised that coincidence is a word we use whe we are ignorant of the real causes — Albert Salvado

Dialogue should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk. — Elizabeth Bowen

The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track. — Bret Easton Ellis

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write. — Sinclair Lewis

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment. — Paul Haggis

Writers who have the vision and the ability to produce real fiction do not produce unreal fiction. — Raymond Chandler

Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent. — Ernest Hemingway,

'being published' is not the same as being a real writer. — Scarlett Thomas

The real reason for quest is always self-knowledge. — Thomas C. Foster

Writing the real self seldom seems original enough when you first happen on it. — Mary Karr

The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity. — Dmitri Shostakovich

Most leadership writing today advises us on how to prosper within the system. I believe real leadership is about transforming the system. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard
by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off — Archibald MacLeish

Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally. — Linus Torvalds

After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction. — Alice Hoffman

If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act. — Billy Wilder

Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story ... Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91) — L.M. Montgomery

The world I create in writing compensates for what the real world does not give me. — Gloria E. Anzaldua

It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world. — Sanober Khan

No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling. — Eleanor Roosevelt

In real life, couples bond and war over a million different things. The causes of divorce are like beautiful, unique snowflakes. — Howard Mittelmark

Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world — Eric S. Raymond

The real payoff is the writing itself, that a day when you have gotten your work done is a good day, that total dedication is the point. — Anne Lamott

The only characters I've made to resemble real people have been grotesques. — Glen Cook

You dive deeper, you strip away the cleverness and the words become more important than your ego and that's when you know it's real, when it's good. — Kamal Ravikant

I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story. — David Ignatius

What I am interested in, what I write and care about, exists in the slow lane, somewhere between hand-ploughed fields and a pint of real ale. — Fennel Hudson

Writers need their writing; they need their imaginary worlds in order to find piece in, or make sense of, the real world. — Terry Brooks

I usually end have one outrageous minor character. He or she says the stuff I wish I had said in real life. Readers will love that character. — Dan Alatorre

Not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do. — Bill Bryson

It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done. — Robert Harris

We write until we find our way. Then the real fun begins. — A.D. Posey

For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me. — Robert Gottlieb

When I write my book, Ill tell the real story of Cheryl — Louis Walsh

When I write I am the real me. — Ann Rinaldi

Our books are the deepest glimpses into our souls, the most raw and real anybody will ever find us. — Melodie Ramone

...but for the Girl Writing A Letter these things don't matter, she's got a beer in her free hand, she's on the road, she's real and she's in love. — William Carpenter

The author: an imaginary person who writes real books. — Edward Abbey

For me, directing is like writing with meat. I can write live, in real time, and change things and be confident that I'm helping the movie. — David Ayer

I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for connections. — Junot Diaz

The way I would live my life is: never do something in real life that I would not want to write about in my Autobiography. — Siddharth Katragadda

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story. — Frank Herbert

The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need. — Jonathan Franzen

The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code, — Douglas McIlroy

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't. — Iain M. Banks

Everything I've written up to this point is crap. Now I'm going to write the real one — Ted Dekker

Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around that? — Shandy L. Kurth

The cookbooks and the writing in general have been a real bonus, but it's not something I've ever pursued ... I've been lucky, I guess. — Padma Lakshmi

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them. — Tobias Wolff

And, as always, I thank my family who are an amazing network of support. — Laisha Rosnau

Real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another. — Agnes Repplier

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess. — Tayari Jones

What is your suggestion for someone who wants to start writing? Be a reader. It's the only real way to learn how to tell a story. — Natalie Babbitt

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words. — Logan Pearsall Smith

Frank Sebastiano is a real write. He has two Emmys, one from 'SNL' and the other from 'The Chris Rock Show' . The only award I have is an FM-mmy. — Artie Lange

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity. — Bill Hybels

I've often thought I would like to try to write a conventional novel, but I just don't know enough about the real world to write one. — Jim Woodring

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say. — Haruki Murakami

For the real writers, every decision is either write or wrong. — Richelle E. Goodrich

The demands of writing and of real life are not always similar. — John Irving

I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out the window. — Barbara Kingsolver

The pen is mightier than the sword unless it's a real sword in which case the guy with the pen should run away fast. — Roger Eschbacher

A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better. — Nicholaa Spencer

'Police Story' had some of the best writing on television, and one reason for that is because most of the scripts were based on real cases. — Michael Mann

I really like writing from real-life experiences. Audiences seem to prefer the stuff I couldn't have made up. — Rebel Wilson

The real power of comics is writing as you draw. — Chris Ware

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life. — Rob Reiner

Just by writing this story, I thought that I am the real monster, I had the feeling that I am doing it.... it was just awful! — Deyth Banger

I'm always writing. It's kind of a curse: You never stop. But I need isolation to write. So the real meat of the material comes when I'm off the road. — Taylor Momsen

The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing. — Judith Rossner

Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards, to see outwards. And capture it in writing. — Fennel Hudson

Letters are the real curse of my existence. I hate to write them: I have to. If I don't, there they are - the great guilty gates barring my way. — Katherine Mansfield

Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws. — Marty Meehan

Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world. — Annie Dillard

My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones. — Paul Klee

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose. — Sylvia Plath

In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy. — Larry Brooks

I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are
the real boundaries. — Katy Lederer

The only real access that I have to my mind is when I'm writing. — Kay Ryan

The difference between fanfic and a "real" novel is that fanfic is honest about its inspiration. — Mary Robinette Kowal

Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer ... and on the reader. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin. — Stanley Schmidt

Good fiction is trawling back into the past and digging up the real characters who've influenced your entire being. — Ken Scott

My real friends never hearin from me, fake friends write the wrong answers on the mirror for me — Drake

The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you. — Ray Bradbury

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world. — Gertrude Atherton

Research is not an obstacle, something to be frightened of. It can be one of the real joys of writing. — Anthony Marra

I think when you write an enigmatic character into a film, you have to have real confidence that the audience are going to go with it. — Gemma Arterton

Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations. — Vijay Seshadri

Reading is a way to escape the real world. Writing is a way to create a new one. — Giuseppe Bianco

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar. — Stephen King

If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works. — Tad Williams

The real difference between those who want to write and those that do, is that those that do get up every day and do it. — Leonard Wolf

To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real. — Augusto Roa Bastos

Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few. — Carl Jung

Never interrupt an author when he or she is 'in the zone', else you'll understand the real meaning of 'writer's nib'. — Fennel Hudson

The best lie is the one that has an element of truth, so it's good to include something real in your fiction. — Renee Conoulty

The only real advice you can give anyone is to keep writing. — David Sedaris

Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward. — Abbas Kiarostami

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us? — Cornelia Funke