Literature Realism Quotes

#1. I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

Oscar Wilde

#2. I have never had the lust to meet famous authors; the best of them is in their books.

Michael Gold

#3. There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.

Alec Baldwin

#4. Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Victor Hugo

#5. 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 and omnipresent and always attractive to kids.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#6. I'm in the gym three to four days a week, depending on how I'm feeling. With chest, legs and back being the most important parts of any athlete's body, I try to train these on separate days with at least a day off in between.

Albert Pujols

#7. Fake realism is the escapist literature of our time. And probably the ultimate escapist reading is that masterpiece of total unreality, the daily stock market report.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#8. Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me.

Sam Neill

#9. I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.

Webb Simpson

#10. But no. No. He may have boarded this bad idea train, but now it was time to derail it.

Elle Kennedy

#11. I started making music professionally when I was 14.

Sky Ferreira

#12. My one quarrel is with words. That is the reason I hate vulgar realism in literature.

Oscar Wilde

#13. Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance ... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.

Henry Williamson

#14. Moral writing is boring.

Johan Van Wyk

#15. Happiness Is Damn Expensive.

Deepakgogna

#16. Of course, that's one of the dreams of modernist literature, whether realist or fantastic: that the more stories we tell each other about such tragedies, the fewer of them there will be. We're still waiting for the results.

Charles Finch

#17. He was, after all, just a man. And not merely a narrative.

Hanif Kureishi

#18. Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.

Terri Windling

#19. The greatest power you possess in life is your understanding that life gives you a fresh start any moment you choose.

Guy Finley

#20. Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading.

Henry David Thoreau

#21. Is Shimmer a floor wax or a dessert topping? Is an electron a wave or a particle? Slipstream tells us that the answer is yes.

John Kessel

#22. Surrender to the ridiculous

Killian B. Brewer

#23. When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.

Don DeLillo

#24. Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

Bertrand Russell

#25. A story: A man fires a rifle for many years, and he goes to war. And afterward he turns the rifle in at the armory, and he believes he's finished with the rifle. But no matter what else he might do with his hands, love a woman, build a house, change his son's diaper; his hands remember the rifle.

Anthony Swofford

#26. All the latchkey children cursed and smashed bottles, teased about underwear, and puffed on those unfiltered cigarettes that only the cowboys could roll.

Bremer Acosta

#27. Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the life of the spirit have always nourished the screamers, the eccentrics, the pseudo-Whitmans, the calculating terrorists?

Alfred Kazin

#28. Absurdism was really just realism seen from close to the bottom.

George Saunders

#29. 'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what I think all good literature should: It entertains you.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie