Giving Quote by Laurent Binet

Ideologically, I have a lot of problems with that, especially when people toss around that form of story as realism. What's called "realism" is…

— Lucy Corin

Realism can break a writer's heart.

— Salman Rushdie

I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if you can…

— Christopher Rice

I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality.

— Nicole Krauss

Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to…

— Arnaud Desplechin

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

So much of what I write in fiction is based on true stories.

— Mark Kurlansky

I think any time you've got a story based on a true story, no matter how accurate it is, obviously it's still fictitious.

— John Lee Hancock

When I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters.…

— Stephenie Meyer

I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff…

— Charlie Kaufman

Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a…

— Tahir Shah

“The point of stories is not that they are objectively true, but that the soul of the story is truer than reality. Those who…

— Cassandra Clare