I am a social realist writer.

'Line of Duty' is a social realist drama, so it's set in a world that has the recognisable features of the authentic world we…

— Jed Mercurio

The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the…

— Colm Toibin

I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer, who tends…

— Paul Auster

“A realist writer might break his protagonist's leg, or kill his fiancee; but a science fiction writer will immolate whole planets, and whilst doing…

— Adam Roberts

With a lot of these social realist films, the first thing you do is drain the color.

— Sean Baker

There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.

— Daniel Woodrell

Sci-fi works for me as a way of getting across a social conceit couched as entertainment. Social realist movies lost their way because they…

— Miguel Sapochnik

A novel, even a social realist one, can't simply be a comprehensive rendering of what is. A novel requires a special angle or approach,…

— Chang-Rae Lee

In the early 1990s we witnessed the emergence of a revitalized contemporary Chinese art world that began as a reaction against the government-approved Social…

— Arne Glimcher

The idea of social realist art and of Marxist journalism was that: 'We're going to tell people not what things were like, but what…

— Anne Applebaum

An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.

— Peter Drucker

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

— Benjamin Graham

Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation; the idea…

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

It always felt like I had to be a realist.

— Jack Tatum

Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.

— Heywood Hale Broun