Top 1200 Realistic Fiction Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

I think now I'm more realistic, but I'm still very much an idealist.

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.

I try to make music for people to relate to, and I like to keep it realistic.

Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.

I think you just have to be realistic to what the reality is, the way people experience movies.

If my children want a career in the entertainment industry that's fine - as long as it's realistic.

In terms of my looks in 'Brothers,' it's definitely not a glamourised look. It is very realistic.

In the form of the oeuvre, the actual circumstances are placed in another dimension where the given reality shows itself as that which it is. Thus it tells the truth about itself; its language ceases to be that of deception, ignorance, and submission. Fiction calls the facts by their name and their reign collapses; fiction subverts everyday experience and shows it to be mutilated and false.

External realities - worlds of politics, economics, law, war, interpersonal and social relations - are part of prose fiction. Fiction also includes the realities of a character's interior language. Poetry can encompass the same realities, but in compressed, intensified language, which creates entirely different degrees of emotional force.

I like method actors who don't focus on the glamorous side, but on realistic acting.

I just really like seeing mundane stuff in movies. It's realistic.

A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.

A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel.

Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear, misheard words or lyrics, dreams... Motivation? The memory of the rush I get from a really good writing session - even on a bad day, I know I'll find that again if I keep going.

I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.

If you've read a lot of vintage science fiction, as I have at one time or another in my life, you can't help but realise how wrong we get it. I have gotten it wrong more times than I've gotten it right. But I knew that when I started; I knew that before I wrote a word of science fiction.

When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry.

I took a great joy with inventing new kinds of mechanisms. I invented new kinds of machines. I've been a student of science fiction for a long, long time, and I'm very well-versed in science fact and science fiction.

Either we're going to solve this by realistic negotiation or there will be blood on the border.

Fight with realistic hope, not to destroy all the world's wrong, but to renew its good.

Having my own label, I have to look at things in a realistic, bottom-line manner.

The 'Dezeen's of this world are extremely inspirational but have no realistic dimension any more.

To be an actor wasn't something that seemed realistic. I started late; I was about 19.

We have to be very realistic as a party as to what we're promising Canadians going into the 2019 election.

Delusion is not good; better to be realistic and then surprise yourself if you're lucky.

It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one.

I was always realistic about the fact I wanted to be involved with big films.

I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.

The religious paradigm and the science fiction paradigm are different. Apologies to science fiction fans, but the paradigm there is to create a new world and describe it with a kind of specificity that we describe the world we inhabit. Religiosity, on the other hand, does none of that.

I don't think it's realistic for someone to have an undying loyalty to everything you ever make.

Sometimes movies gloss over things, and it was important to me that this was realistic.

I'm the only member of SFWA in Nebraska, but I don't pine away for the companionship of other science fiction writers. I [go] to very few conventions. I'm quite willing to be that eccentric who has a very odd job, quite happy to be the only science fiction writer in town.

I'm realistic. I know there are players out there who are more talented than me.

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

Science fiction is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, 'Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday, it's going to be a lot different.'

I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.

Veep is the best and most realistic political TV show out there.

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because they feel something else will happen; that the experience will take them beyond themselves and show them something they haven't seen before.

Don't be afraid to have a reality check. Taking risks is OK, but you must be realistic.

What I like about mixing fiction and non-fiction is being able to fully explore an idea without being bound by genre. If you scratch under any surface there are histories for everything, aren't there? And there's unknown women's history in everything, too. It all gets simplified because its complexity is more than you can stand sometimes. So you need full freedom of expression.

Any time I'm on-screen it is realistic because I don't pull my punches or anything like that.

Arthur Clarke says that I am first in science and second in science fiction in accordance with an agreement we have made. I say he is first in science fiction and second in science.

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

You would want to play in every game if possible, but I am realistic.

As long as you are in the relative worlds, you should be realistic and know there is winning and losing here.

Playing someone supernatural is more realistic than I thought it would be.

I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard because you have to come up with the credible, twisty plot, and memoir is hard because you have to say something true and profound, albeit in a funny way.

Reading Tomato Red-the first Daniel Woodrell novel I came upon-was a transformative experience. It expanded my sense of the possibilities not only of crime fiction, but of fiction itself-of language, of storytelling. Time and again, his work just dazzles and humbles me. God bless Busted Flush for these glorious reissues. It's a service to readers everywhere, and a great gift.

I often photograph something as if the subject matter was realistic, but it is actually a fantasy.

As you may know, my motto is: "All memory is fiction." It could just as easily be: "All fiction is memory." Unpacked, these two statements defy the ease of logic, but offer some really important truths about narrative art, at the very least, and about memory. So I would say that all art is personal.

I shattered the notion that a movie had to be advertised with realistic elements from the story.

Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not.

If films don't work, you have to be realistic and keep taking up television projects.

I don't even know how people read new fiction anymore because there's so much old fiction that exists that seems great that's unread. It's overwhelming to me. But, I mean, I do read. But there probably haven't been many people less literate than me that have been in 'The Paris Review.'

Goals should be realistic, attainable, and shared among all members of the team

Study up on the Eastern religions. They're the only ones that are realistic. There's no answer, see.

Because I really love tax, tax topics actually feature quite a lot in my fiction of various lengths. I once wrote a science fiction short story centered around the idea of an alien tax code, and the idea that you can understand a society by parsing its tax code.

Republicans are willing to support and vote for realistic, meaningful financial reform.

The novels are always morphing into something else now, some kind of hybrid, more of a ground that isn't so easily specified. I suppose you could call it creative non-fiction, and rather focused on the natural world, which is what I'm most interested in reading these days. At least that would be the closest thing, but my books also include some fiction, so they're difficult to pinpoint.