Realist Fiction Quotes

#1. There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.

Daniel Woodrell

#2. Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs of a dysfunctional society, denying the use of imagination, was the ghetto.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#3. You are confusing two notions, "the solution of a problem" and "the correct posing of the question". Only the second is essential for the artist.

Anton Chekhov

#4. A realist writer might break his protagonist's leg, or kill his fiancee; but a science fiction writer will immolate whole planets, and whilst doing so he will be more concerned with the placement of commas than the screams of the dying.

Adam Roberts

#5. McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determination, a history of resisting foreign invasion.

Morley Safer

#6. I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

Mel Brooks

#7. I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called.

Walter Kirn

#8. We [H&M] believe that growth, profit and sustainability are not contradictory. Our ambition is to be a fair and profitable company, because otherwise we couldn't open any new stores, we couldn't produce new designs and no new jobs would be created. H&M would soon cease to exist.

Karl-Johan Persson

#9. You want a favor from me, it's going to involve crown molding or adding extra can lights. I draw the line at amusing your bouche

Lisa Kleypas

#10. People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.

Amartya Sen

#11. Make incremental progress, change comes not by the yard, but by the inch.

Rick Pitino

#12. My young friend supposes his ingenuousness is merely a ruse.

Mason Cooley

#13. Basketball, more than any other sport, is a team game ... about the thousands of small, unselfish acts, the sacrifices on the part of the players that result in team building.

Dean Smith