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Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality. -- Brad Thor
Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life. -- Camille Paglia
When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life. -- Joyce Carol Oates
A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines. -- Bill Walsh
Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience. -- Alex Berenson
When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don't. I expect books to move me deeply and submerge me in another reality. So when a novel makes me roar with laughter, it's always a delightful surprise. -- Maria Semple
I'm quite proud of what I anticipated about reality television from my books in the early '90s, which I based on the early seasons of 'Cops' and on the amazing stuff I had read about happening on Japanese shows and the British 'Big Brother'. -- William Gibson
Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one of Mrs. McGregor's pies. I also hid the book of 'Grimm Fairy Tales.' They're just too grim for my grandkids. Reality will come soon enough. -- Regina Brett
Now, many public libraries want to lend e-books, not simply to patrons who come in to download, but to anybody with a reading device, a library card and an Internet connection. In this new reality, the only incentive to buy, rather than borrow, an e-book is the fact that the lent copy vanishes after a couple of weeks. -- Scott Turow
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books. -- Jean Rostand
A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books. -- Francois Mitterrand
In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low. -- Aldous Huxley
My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books. -- Alan Furst
Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines -- Bill Walsh
If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment. -- Joe Queenan
...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality. -- FÃ©lix J. Palma
Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written. -- Paulo Coelho

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