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I just want to tell a good story, so I always ask myself, 'Are these people real to me?'

The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.

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 want to tell authentic, real stories with real characters.

I like real stories.

The telling of stories creates the real world.

There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.

The best stories come from real life.

I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.

When a story is told really well and is real, even if it's not about their own lives, people can apply it to themselves.