Character Quote by Walter Mosley

All things in my novels are real for me. Some western critics said that Garcia Marquez's novels are magic realism. However, I believe that…

— Haruki Murakami

To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this…

— Orhan Pamuk

“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

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality…

— Michel Houellebecq

More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

— Candice Millard

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

— Nicole Krauss

“...sense of reality is important in any work of fiction...”

— Stephen King

I am drawn to writing books about magic and the supernatural because those are the types of books I like to read. I've written…

— Cassandra Clare

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

You try to make characters you care about, and I think realism helps. Even though this is a high concept, the characters have got…

— Ricky Gervais

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

“For every work of fiction, the author inserts a bit of themself to make the story seem more real. For every work of nonfiction,…

— A.K. Wallace