#real_life

And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#character #deeply #just #kind #life

Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#back #back up #big #cleaned #draft

More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#had #i #key #life #more

On stage, I'm this figure, this actor, who does things that people aren't used to seeing and I relish in that reaction. In real life, though, I play golf, I shop and I walk around with no makeup on and my hair in a ponytail. I may not be the typical middle-aged Joe, but I'm closer to normal than you think. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#around #closer #does #figure #golf

'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson! ↗

— Andrew Gross

#bottom #california #central #chance #charles

If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest. ↗

— Christian Bale

#am #everyone #i #i am #jerk

I don't know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It's really sad. ↗

— Sanjay Dutt

#farmers #how #i #know #life

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#behind #curtain #design #graphic #graphic design

The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs. ↗

— Melissa Etheridge

#experiences #inspired #just #life #more

No not really, it is just like real life. Not everyday you are happy and not everyday you are sad. ↗

— Dakota Fanning

#happy #just #life #like #real