Believe Quote by Christopher Rice

Realism can break a writer's heart.

— Salman Rushdie

The good thing about writing a true story is that you don't have to worry about giving an impression of realism.

— Laurent Binet

I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their…

— Marguerite Young

“The beauty of fiction is it need not be factual and the writer's imagination can travel as far from reality as he or she…

— Sheldon Friedman

Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real"…

— Anne Enright

“Fiction though it is a fiction, should be written in a way that it feels like a reality, a reality every reader willingly or…

— Arti Honrao

There is a popular superstition that "realism" asserts itself in the cataloguing of a great number of material objects, in explaining mechanical processes, the…

— Willa Cather

You can't be a serious writer of fiction unless you believe the story you are telling.

— Norman Mailer

Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.

— Robert Penn Warren

I want my fiction to seem real.

— Mary Kay Andrews

Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference.

— Elliott Colla

If literary terms were about artistic merit and not the rules of convenience, about achievement and not safety, the term 'realism' would be an…

— Charles J. Shields