Ed Wood Quotes

I don't quite operate within the realist mode. I kind of push the stories out towards the cusp of believability - that's the area of interest for me.

They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel.

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

Everything in a story should be credible.

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

Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

It's supposed to be entertainment. It's not supposed to be a documentary.

You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react. You have to tweak your credibility a little bit, is basically what it comes down to.

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.

Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.

Writing is so fun precisely because if you take out the right adjective, the readers can decide what kind of book is in their hands. Suspension of disbelief should not be mandatory in contemporary writing.

The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.

Fiction becomes visual by becoming verbal

Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.

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've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling.

Writers can take offense when someone asks what's real or autobiographical in our work because, to us, that's not what counts. The bits taken from life are tiny scales on the dragon's tail - what about that whole beautiful writhing, fire-breathing dragon?

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all. Sometimes it's me, or a composite of me and other people. Sometimes it's not me at all.

A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction.

Meta-fiction doesn't depend on the illusion that you're reading about real people.

I think we think in terms of stories.

A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns.