I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.
I remember - when I was little, I remember playing 'Tecmo Bowl,' and I would be so excited to be Bo Jackson in the game that I wanted to watch him play in real life.
Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may have to put up with tedious people, but not in novels.
For years, I've felt that there's an inner cook in me just waiting to be unleashed. But I have to confess I'm having an awful lot of trouble finding her in real life.
In the early ages, I believe not much thought was given to what man is and what his real functions should be, and what is the real purpose of his life.
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.
Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.
I'm not really gangsta. Not at all. I just write about them. It's fun to pretend, at least on paper. But in real life, not so much.
I can't wait to see The Grinch. It's so out of the world. Every time a movie like that comes out, I'm stoked. It's like real life.
The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New York City. It was my first real love.
I'm really into tall boots. I just got some new ones from Michael Kors that have these little gold studs. I have Valentino ones that I really love. Real, real tall boots!
I love the fact that people can relate to what I'm saying, even if it's not for the same subject I was writing about. That is the power of real music and real expression.
My interviewing style and my approach to things is that, yes, it's okay to be sincere; it's okay to be yourself; it's okay to be real.
The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature.
Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods - the sum is bigger than the parts, and the parts will grow.
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
