America Quote by Jennifer Egan

I think the big lesson I've learned is that it's very hard to write satire in America because almost immediately, whatever you've thought of…

— Jennifer Egan

You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.

— Philip Roth

“What starts as satire is so often reborn as propaganda...”

— Charlie Campbell

Really, I protest-what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?

— Jude Morgan

Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow…

— Graydon Carter

I'm a realist, and so we have to take what exists and continue to struggle to move forward.

— Danny K. Davis

I'm uncomfortable with the word satire. In the U.K., there's quite a bit of sledgehammer weight to that word, which is the antithesis of…

— Jesse Armstrong

I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called.

— Walter Kirn

The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.

— Yahoo Serious

I'm very much a realist.

— Leanne Caret

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

— Dawn Powell

I think I will be just fine without your satires. They mock my progress.

— Crosby Kwaw