Asif Kapadia Quotes

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

Life is a question without a standard answer.

Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.

Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

Real life is crazier than fiction.

Life is a horizontal fall.

There are always loose ends in real life.

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.

Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.

Life doesn't tend to fix things or wrap them up in bows.

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes place is believable only because it happens.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

This life is messy.

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

Truth be told, I hear stories every day that would make you say, 'If you put that in a movie, you wouldn't believe it.' Real life really is kinda incredible; the stories from people's actual lives defy credibility. People's lives are messy, humans are messy, and they're flawed.

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.