Real Life Story Quotes

#1. This is a real-life story, Owen," I said. "It's not a mystery novel." In real life, I meant, there was nothing written that the missing father couldn't

John Irving

#2. And then ... perhaps someone will write a book about making a film about a story that is taken from this book which is taken from a real-life story that was copied from a story in a book. You know?

Richard House

#3. Bernard Harris is a great example of the American success story. In Dream Walker he describes how he is trying to pass on his experience and success to the next generation
we can all learn from his real life story.

Craig R. Barrett

#4. It is easy to make stuff up - and easy to dig up information and repeat it or report it to others. But to find a real life story with real people in real life situations is quite difficult and time-consuming. Yet, the rewards are worth the effort.

Lee Gutkind

#5. This is the trouble with real-life story arcs: the happiness is so rarely saved for the end.

Richard Glover

#6. Money comes with a price, and for me, the price is both freedom and a real life.

Savi Sharma

#7. I write - and read - for the sake of the story ... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these characters and observe these events in real life? Is this story an experience worth living through for its own sake? Is the pleasure of contemplating these characters an end itself?

Ayn Rand

#8. Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars.

Wentworth Miller

#9. Jessica, falling in love can't always be a happily ever after or a once in a lifetime kind of story. Those happen in books, in movies. This is life and it's real. Life has no script, no outline. We broke the rules of love long ago. All I know for sure is that with you, the rules will never apply.

Kathryn Perez

#10. In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.

Anthony Burgess

#11. We can have all the food and water we need, but without the sustenance of
real story, real art - without the wisdom, insight, and "life instruction" it brings - we will stagnate as a culture and become a swamp where quality life can no longer be sustained. So share your gifts! Share your art!

Derek Rydall

#12. 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

#13. But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?

Jimmy Connors

#14. Nothing ever really ends. That's the horrible part of being in the short-story business - you have to be a real expert on ends. Nothing in real life ends. 'Millicent at last understands.' Nobody ever understands.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#15. It's Life. It's the bumps and the bruises, the pain and the fear; it's messy and it's real and it's not some perfect little story that can be tied up in a bow.

Tara Sivec

#16. Real life is inefficient, disorganized, and sometimes haffling. It's also messy and cluttered with distractions that obscure the trajectory of story.

Ellen Hopkins

#17. The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who he is when he is not writing, when he is living his daily life, when he is alive and real, and not dying and without truth.

Maurice Blanchot

#18. I love sitting at my desk and facing a quiet day with a pen in my hand, and putting myself into a story. It's kind of weird, isn't it? I mean, to absent myself from real life and make up stories is strange, but I started doing this when I was ten years old. It was all I wanted to do.

Philip Kerr

#19. I went in and said, "If I see one more gratuitous shot of a woman's body, I'm quitting ... " I think the show should be emotional story lines, morals, real- life heroes. And that's what we're doing

David Hasselhoff

#20. What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.

Tristan Wilds

#21. This is why I choose not to have real-life girlfriends. I can't even pretend without starting a fight.

Colleen Hoover

#22. I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

G.K. Chesterton

#23. I really became convinced I wanted to tell the story of the real-life model for the Degas sculpture 'Little Dancer Aged 14,' which was unveiled in 1881, the Belle Epoque.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

#24. I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through it. Also, that life has happiness and sadness mixed together. If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn't be real.

Alan Lightman

#25. I needed a piece of a story, something real and full of life and blood and breath and heartache, something that someone had lived through, a piece of wisdom earned the hard way. That's why telling our stories is so important.

Shauna Niequist

#26. I want a good love story and a happy ending. Period. I don't want to deal with real life shit in a book. I'm reading to escape.

R.L. Griffin

#27. When you're playing a real person, there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.

David Tennant

#28. Fiction isn't truer than life: it just makes a better story.

Marty Rubin

#29. It's one thing to affirm that God is free to do as God wills in this
world. The real crunch comes in allowing God the freedom and
trust to act in one's own life. John Indermark

Lynelle Clark

#30. There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That's a savage person who looks at everything as a story and, you know, wants to use real life in his books. The other part is the Midwesterner, who, you know, wants to say nice things about people and be polite.

Walter Kirn

#31. The whole story, paradoxically enough, strengthens our relish for real life. This excursion into the preposterous sends us back with renewed pleasure to the actual.

C.S. Lewis

#32. 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.

Sarah Dessen

#33. I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren't just right. It's about honesty and real-life circumstances coming out. Granted it can be swayed by how people tell that story, but overall, I like it because it is true.

Steven Yeun

#34. My books rustled by like a military of ducks. My mother had never liked my books. She'd said they kept me from real life, by which I think she meant men, or money, or both. Always accusing things of precisely the crimes they hadn't committed.
(From the short story: Once an Empire)

Rivka Galchen

#35. Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.

Cate Blanchett

#36. This is not a story for the faint of heart; this is the story of one woman's very real struggle through a world against her, the people who hurt her, her real life demons and the people who showed her that every gray sky, no matter how dark, has a sun waiting to break through.

S.L. Jennings

#37. To us he's like... like scenery, in the background of our lives, but for him, he's the main character. He has a life and a job and a whole story. He's a real person. And to him, we're the background scenery.

Dan Wells

#38. There is an integrity to story that comes from a real life lived in it. A story is clearly illumined from being raised up in it. In

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#39. Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I was pouring out did not come from any real, personal life experience; this was all the residue of the accumulation of Rafael Sabatini, O. Henry, all the short-story writers that I'd been reading.

Will Eisner

#40. But you are, you know, you were, the nearest thing to a real story to happen in my life

Renata Adler

#41. You are divine, you are perfect, but as an artist, you create your own story and you have the illusion that the story is real. You live your life by justifying that story. And by justifying the story, you are wasting your life.

Miguel Ruiz

#42. I like films that go a little more daring visually, and story-based stuff that usually reflects pretty closely to what real life is.

William Beckett

#43. Is Roxy the villain of that story, I wonder, or is Hayden? I try to dismiss the thought. Real life is rarely so cut-and-dried.

Kendall Ryan

#44. If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

Caroline B. Cooney

#45. It's a lot more interesting to learn and discover real-life principles when they are revealed in the form of a story.

Andy Andrews

#46. I like a story that could never happen to me. If I want real life I'll read a newspaper.

Lemony Snicket

#47. My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.

Nikki Reed

#48. I think one of the few times I've been involved with real-life characters was the story of Marie Bonaparte. I think it's really difficult to become someone that really existed.

Catherine Deneuve

#49. It is never, never too late, in a story or in real life, to correct.

Nancy Thayer

#50. Real life is not a love story. It's a series of tough decisions, disappointments and compromise. It ain't glamorous or fluffy, and it doesn't always have a happy ending. We live. And we learn. And sometimes that's the best we can hope for.

Joanne Phillips

#51. I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.

Antonio Banderas

#52. Why did everyone like that story so much when it wasn't true? Why was everyone so eager to believe it? Was it because, in real life, ever after's generally stink?

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#53. You can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote. Send guys to war, they come home talking dirty.

Tim O'Brien

#54. I thought I understood the story very well, because I've lived with it for so long. But movies change and take on a life of their own once they start to be made, and you have to keep your eye on the real ball, not the ball that's in your head.

Andrew McCarthy

#55. The unknown is the most frightening and mysterious thing, especially in the modern world where we can practically Google anything and find out the back story. I think to have that element of mystery [in your movie], it almost creates a frustration that is closer to real life.

Larry Fessenden

#56. I guess my inspiration is this - I like to pretend that every story that ever happened to 'Batman' was real and is part of this one guy's life.

Grant Morrison

#57. Why read fiction when real life can be just as interesting?

LHandLG

#58. And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.

Maximilian Schell

#59. I'm always looking in the lighting to tell the story in a different way than it actually looks in real life because it's, for me, more contrast sometimes has to mean it's softer than normal.

Vilmos Zsigmond

#60. Real life can be hard, and when you get whisked away into a beautiful story - everything else disappears.

Loretta Lost

#61. If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You're just telling yourself the story of how it doesn't.

Byron Katie

#62. Any story worth telling relates to real life in some meaningful way. Scifi allows you to tell meaningful stories without seeming too preachy - it adds a metaphorical layer between the story and the real world. Scifi is dismissed as ungrounded fluff, but it's actually the opposite.

Jane Espenson

#63. As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life.

Charles Baxter

#64. Cassia.
I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It's the one with you. For some reason, knowing that even one person knows my story makes things different. Maybe it's like the poem says. Maybe this is my way of not going gentle.
I love you. (Ky Markham)

Ally Condie

#65. Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.

Q'orianka Kilcher

#66. The value of a story like 'Deadline' is kids get to look at death at the perfect distance. They can put the book down. They can experience the story, rub up against it, but it's not real life.

Chris Crutcher

#67. I make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it's just not real. That's what a parable is. It takes things that we all know are real, and it takes life events that actually happen, and it weaves them into a fiction that allows truth to actually be embedded.

William P. Young

#68. I'm not straight, and I'm not gay. I'm not bisexual. I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.

Chuck Palahniuk

#69. In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.

Edmund White

#70. I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#71. 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

#72. In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life.

Ally Condie

#73. I remember what it feels like to come with open hands and heart and I am, again, awed by the Story of in the beginning, water into wine, love held by nails, the veil torn, resurrected life. He is real, more real than anything I will ever see with my eyes, hear with my ears, or touch with my hands.

Lisa Whittle

#74. All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is real; it's all part of the story we tell. But here's the thing: it's our goddamned story!

Jess Walter

#75. We learn to appreciate what we achieve, no matter how small the achievement, because we do it ourselves. - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live

Rachele Baker

#76. The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning.
The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end.

Vera Nazarian

#77. When I was a kid, I really loved watching 'Cinderella.' It's a fantasy, and every girl knows that real life isn't always like these movies, but as a child, I just really loved the story of 'Cinderella.' I found it to be so romantic and just a beautiful movie to watch.

Sara Ramirez

#78. Whenever you're telling a story about true-life events and about real people, there's a tremendous responsibility-slash-burden to get it right.

Tom McCarthy

#79. In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.

Jessica Cutler

#80. When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something to be learned about that approach in real life

Carl Henegan

#81. In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living.

Aleksandar Hemon

#82. Always craft a story from real life encounters. It is more believable and you are able to tell it with some emotion.

Khalid Muhammad

#83. Marty [Scorsese] knows that when an improvised moment comes out of a real situation, it's gonna have more life and more going on than anything you can imagine and that's how the character can become the story

Leonardo DiCaprio

#84. Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel's thriller 'Seven Days in May,' later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.

Gore Vidal

#85. All life is only allegory and the real story is not here ...

Richard Flanagan

#86. Elmore Leonard famously said that a story is real life with the boring parts left out.

Lisa Cron

#87. No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story.

Catherynne M Valente

#88. For every moment I smile, I've braved a thousand frowns.

Brian A. Brown

#89. For the serious biographer, history and the life story of a real individual are inseparably intertwined. Get the facts wrong, or distort them, and the life story gets distorted: becomes fiction.

Nigel Hamilton

#90. My job (and yours, if you decide this is a viable approach to storytelling) is to make sure these fictional folks behave in ways that will both help the story and seem reasonable to us, given what we know about them (and what we know about real life, of course).

Stephen King

#91. Loving someone is not tough but the real courage is to be with that person forever.

Anuj Tiwari

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

David Ignatius

#93. A real love story is sometimes exhausting. A romance is deliberately constructed to yield a certain result; the ambiguities are trimmed out, so it's neater and more pleasing to our hearts. But you don't live a love story, you live a life.

Melissa Pritchard

#94. In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story.

Katherine Center

#95. Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.

Laurence Overmire

#96. The drive of the story is sort of hinted at the beginning, is Joy and Sadness and those two characters. Especially Joy starting to understand that there's more to life than being happy. And so that's based on real life observations and things that we've learned as adults.

Pete Docter

#97. We all have a life story and a message that can inspire others to live a better life or run a better business. Why not use that story and message to serve others and grow a real business doing it?

Brendon Burchard

#98. These stories always take us to some far away places which we can never visit in real life.

Viraj J. Mahajan

#99. Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.

Shannon Hale

#100. When I was in college, I did sort of want to be a journalist. Being an actor, you kind of have the same interest. You go into a story, and you tell it from your point of view for people who aren't there. That's what an actor does with a character. But the real life is more more interesting.

Sigourney Weaver