Simone Weil Quotes

I don't think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border between reality and make-believe.

Movies are different from real life.

People don't like reality, they like crazy stories.

I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.

Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.

Anyone who has set out to invent a purely imaginary story knows that the whole thing is fantasy, from beginning to end; there must be a sense of magic created about the most restrained of naturalism.

The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.

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.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

I make it all up, and all of it is true.

I feel that entertainment happens when fact and fiction is balanced.

I think both you and I, we live in a world of fiction and stories.

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.

All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Storytelling, mythology and film provide a lot of hope but, on the flip side, can also create delusion.

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what can happen is beyond what we do - or would want to see in real life.

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

I have a lot of fantasy.

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.

Some stories are true that never happened.