Top 22 Quotes About Realism In Literature

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Michael Gold

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#3. 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

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#4. 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

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#5. 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

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

Oscar Wilde

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#7. Moral writing is boring.

Johan Van Wyk

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#8. 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

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#9. To all the young people out there who think money and fame is important: that's only a small piece of the pie. You need an education to be totally secure in life. I feel very secure I can go get a real job now.

Shaquille O'Neal

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#10. 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

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#11. You made me real, and I will hurt for you and because of you and be grateful for the pain. But this? This is forever. Don't do this.

Michelle Hodkin

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#12. When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it's well to remember that Things Take Time.

Piet Pieterszoon Hein

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#13. 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

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#14. 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

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#15. And even if this world burns up hidden harps will still play here.

Rumi

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#16. 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

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#17. Do the gods sleep well at night? I think maybe they do.

Laurell K. Hamilton

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#18. 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

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#19. Luck does indeed favor the well prepared.

James Alan Fox

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#20. If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

John Stuart Mill

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

George Saunders

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#22. '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

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