Quotes About Believable

That was a nice save," Harlin says, sounding amused. "So detailed. Like a nurse." "Shut up, Harlin," I say, trying not to smile. "I didn't hear you offer anything better." "You sure you didn't want to tell him we were playing doctor? That might have sounded more believable.

If your characters are two-dimensional and your plot uncompelling, it won't matter how incredibly detailed and believable your fantasy world might be.

The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.

I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed.

In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic.

Let's face it: Sadness and evil are always more believable than happiness and love. When a movie reviewer calls a film realistic, everyone knows what that means--it means the movie has an unhappy ending.

The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.

You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.

I was actually thinking about writing, maybe, Owen said. About Charm? Kiel asked, raising an eyebrow. No? Owen said, probably a bit too fast too be believable. I have some other ideas.

I'm cute. Women believe me." "I don't believe you." "That's because you know me. I'm superficially believable.

I don't watch films that are too unreal.

When I was younger, I played a lot of upper-class English girls. Then I came to America, and everyone was like, 'She's very believable as trailer trash.'

To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how things happened. The physics has to work.

I did make 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin the Million Dollar Champion on Raw. You know I saw the talent in Steve and I remember telling him - because a lot of people were telling him 'You need to do more' - I remember telling him, 'Don't do anything different, because what you do is believable, it's real.'

In the end, it's about the reality. You want something that's believable in the performances; you want something that's believable in the storytelling, in the writing. You just want to connect to something that you feel is real.

If you ever have the good fortune to meet Tippi Hedren, she's an amazing woman. You can't quite believe she is the age she is.

Gloriously, I've also learned that people you meet in real life are very unrealistic. The marvelous problem for fiction is to capture this preposterous, implausible and blazingly eccentric life, and to put it in a cell overnight, to sober it up until it reads believably on the page. That's what a novelist is: I'm not a creating god, I'm reality's jailor.

I used to be one of those people who read thrillers on vacation, but for some reason most thrillers no longer thrill me. Maybe because these days reality is far more unbelievable than any fiction?

One final note from the world of fiction: You'll be more believable if you're not perfect. A useful flaw in your character makes you more interesting and gives you a hook so that you penetrate deeply into the minds of your marketplace. The marketplace then sees you as human and real. By

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.

I enjoy doing action a lot more because my films have a sense of violence. That's because I have a broad structure, and if I hit someone, it looks believable. Maybe my contemporaries are meeker-looking in comparison.

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

It's surprisingly hard to play a vampire and feel believable. I mean, you want to be able to at least believe yourself.