Capture Quote by Joe Swanberg

I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all. I'm interested in the ways that I think people want to relate.

— Lynne Tillman

Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a work of…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

Real dialogue is where two or more people become willing to suspend their certainty in each other's presence.

— David Bohm

We need realism to deal with reality.

— Slick Rick

Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.

— Hob Broun

Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real life' conversation-would…

— Elizabeth Bowen

Conversation opens our views, and gives our faculties a more vigorous play; it puts us upon turning our notions on every side, and holds…

— William Melmoth

Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

— Anonymous

“Much of human communication is a monologue delivered to anyone who will listen. A real dialogue allows many to express and has the chance…

— Dr. Dennis Cogswell

But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to…

— Albert Camus

I love many realists but very strongly resist the notion that realism presents a less stylized, more authentic version of the world.

— Laura van den Berg

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