Explaining Quote by Brendan Kennelly

Like all novelists, I'm interested in the filters between reality and the imagination.

— Hisham Matar

What a writer wants to do is not what he does.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“The greatest and most difficult task of a writer is bridging the gap between reality...and the unimaginable”

— Jason W. Blair

I'm not interested in observed reality.

— Howard Barker

Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.

— Anatole Broyard

I am not interested in representing reality. Actually, I am interested in representing reality, but that doesn't mean a naturalistic approach, which I think…

— Yorgos Lanthimos

As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality.

— Andrzej Wajda

“I think that a writer should observe the real world before imagining a non-existent one.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

— Joseph Conrad

The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a…

— John Dos Passos

Realism can break a writer's heart.

— Salman Rushdie

I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all.

— Lynne Tillman