Form Quote by Lucy Corin

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

— Laurent Binet

Realism can break a writer's heart.

— Salman Rushdie

Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's…

— Vikram Seth

There's a problem with narratives. Most that spring to mind are fictional.

— Howard Jacobson

Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad…

— Sherwood Anderson

Realism is a corruption of reality.

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Nicole Krauss

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

— Manuel Puig

It is a misrepresentation to call my works fiction; the work loses something when categorized this way. I realize that the stories are somewhat…

— Jill Magid

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

Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to be eternal…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

True realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest.

— Asger Jorn