Quotes About Reality

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

I want to read philosophers.

I read the newspaper, but I live in my own little bubble.

I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop.

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said, there's generally a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation.

I know there are a lot of readers that think I've got a very crappy marriage just because of the things going on with Rick and Lori but there's really nothing that's been like a mirror. I'm just making this stuff up.

However much, as readers, we lose ourselves in a novel or story, fiction itself is an experience on the order of memory -not on the order of actual occurrence.

I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.

I think it's important that readers know that not every celebrity is a freak.

The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for disappointment with every success that you deliver because with every success you raise your readers' expectations.

Nonfiction means that our stories are as true and accurate as possible. Readers expect - demand - diligence.

I understand that fictional men aren't real. Not 'really real'. I know this the same way I wonder if my readers are disappointed when they meet me.

It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.

I know, normally folks on TV wouldn't readily admit their age, but since there's nothing you can do about it, you might as well own it and be happy.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

We all identify with the people we see, and in a good documentary, we are not just reading an account of the world, we're seeing and hearing our world.

More and more, I find that the news reads like a particularly random game of Consequences.

I'm here to tell you the coffee was hot, the orange juice was cold, New York's still there and Reagan National is back.

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

I know God is real.

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.