Quotes of: Real-story Keyword

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

Stolen Inheritance - A True Story of Oil, Army and Murder

The real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Mark Zuckerberg

A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.

Isaac Babel

'Watchmen' is a politically charged story, and it explores exactly what a hero is, how the world would treat them and how they would react. It was the first time I read a superhero story that explored that situation. These are very real people with v...

Gerard Way

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

Vera Nazarian

There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.

Samantha Bee

I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us,as it should.

The Fault in Our Stars

He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods; the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

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

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

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

Laurence Overmire

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.

The Feast of Love

Where are there lots of colors, Colton?" "In Heaven, Dad. That's where all the rainbow colors are!

Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.

Ben Okri

Just because they're a story doesn't mean they're not real.

The Remarkable & Very True Story of Lucy & Snowcap

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers f...

Mark Zuckerberg

Fiction inhabits the zone between the real and the impossible. The tug of those two poles is what gives it motion, vitality. Tethering fiction too tightly to the real produces plodding, lifeless stories. Letting it float too far from that anchor prod...

Vinnie Tesla

I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the 'honesty' of the story.

Chris Ware

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

Danger is real. Heartache is real. Fear is not. It’s a story we tell ourselves.

Brianna Wiest