Fiction Quote by Michael Richardson

“A stubborn refusal of the conditions of 20th Century 'reality', surrealism has denied intransigently and consistently that modern man can live without a sense…

— Michael Richardson

“The surreal is as integral a part of our lives as the 'real,' although one might argue that, since the unconscious underlies consciousness, and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different means by…

— Michael Richardson

“Most people are realist. I consider myself a surrealist. Creativy drives past the point of what is real to a wonderland of infinite possibilities.”

— Andrinesha Dickson

This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it…

— Salman Rushdie

“All fiction is based on some form of reality—otherwise we would never have the inspiration or knowledge to dream up the realistic situations we…

— Rene Folsom

“All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Surrealism could not be made up. It was the very electricity of the real.

— Lorrie Moore

“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

It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of.

— Michel Gondry

“People tend to focus on the "magic" more than the "realism." But, like all fiction, fantasy arrives at truth via the road of untruth.”

— Salman Rushdie

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

— Hunter S. Thompson