Top 1200 Realistic Fiction Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Wanting to play the guitar was neither a wild dream nor a realistic ambition. It was simply inevitable.

One day I decided to move towards documentaries or to move to more directing in documentaries at this point in my career. Why documentaries? I also love fiction. I would love to direct a fiction movie as well. But I think where I come from, reality is so interesting and has in it so many good stories to tell, this is why I'm doing that. I'm enjoying that.

Much blood has also been spilled on the carpet in attempts to distinguish between science fiction and fantasy. I have suggested an operational definition: science fiction is something that COULD happen - but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something that COULDN'T happen - though often you only wish that it could.

I have seen games on Xbox 360 and HD TV and I'm amazed at how realistic the players look.

My non-fiction films are pretty much fiction, or at least close... It's all "movies" for me. I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them.

I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.

I'm sorry, I'm absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs.

It was good of Friedrich Nietzsche to declare God dead - I declare that he has never been born. It is a created fiction, an invention, not a discovery. Do you understand the difference between invention and discovery? A discovery is about truth, an invention is manufactured by you. It is man-manufactured fiction.

So often feminism is built up as this thing where you have to be perfect. You have to be consistent and you can't ever deviate. That's just not realistic.

...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

With gritty action and realistic science, Peter Watts brings to life a dark and vivid world.

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths. As for nonfiction, for history, it may be real, but its truth is slippery, hard to access, with no fixed meaning bolted to it. If history doesn't become story, it dies to everyone except the historian.

You can say to actors that you've got to be the character and really get into it, but you have to make it realistic by bringing an element of yourself into it.

Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.

Now, if you want to do realistic, kind of heavier acting stuff, you do it on Amazon or Netflix or whatever or HBO.

There's the fact that American fiction is basically the most apolitical fiction on the globe. A South American writer wouldn't dare think of writing a novel if it didn't allude to the system into which these people are orchestrated - or an Eastern European writer, or a Russian writer, or a Chinese writer. Only American writers are able to imagine that the government and the corporations - all of it - seem to have no effect whatsoever.

One of my favorite authors to read is Eric Ambler, who helped pioneer the form of realistic suspense novels.

When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.

To be realistic, the big Dutch clubs cannot afford me. That's not because of my wages; it's the transfer fee.

It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells under a microscope. It will not work if you are writing fiction. For the fiction writer, to believe nothing is to see nothing.

Realistic non-commercial films offer you a lot more liberty as a director than a usual film.

I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.

Once a poet always a poet, and even though I haven't written poems for a long time, I can nonetheless say that everything I've ever learned about writing lyrical fiction has been informed by three decades of writing in lines and stanzas. For me the real drama of fiction is almost always the drama of the language.

'Pitchfork' said something like, 'Michael Imperioli wrote a book that sounds like Lou Reed fan fiction,' which maybe it is. It's fiction, and I'm a fan. But it's not about me, and it's not a Lou Reed book.

I think that I had read so much fiction that the craft itself sort of sank into me. I didn't read any 'how to' books or attend any popular-fiction-writing classes or have a critique group. For many years into my writing, I didn't even know another author. For me, a lot of reading was the best teacher.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

Virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation.

A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged.

The literature now is so opaque to the average person that you couldn't take a science-fiction short story that's published now and turn it into a movie. There'd be way too much ground work you'd have to lay. It's OK to have detail and density, but if you rely on being a lifelong science-fiction fan to understand what the story is about, then it's not going to translate to a broader audience.

As a driver, you always want to win every race, but as a car owner you know that isn't very realistic.

The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is objectionable, since many science fiction stories take place in the present or the past, far and near.

I find a difference in British spy fiction and American spy fiction. In the American version, it's more militaristic, partly because the CIA has more of the military makeup. Whereas MI6 is more of a cerebral, intelligence-based, relationship-based service, i.e., all they do is recruit people to get information out of them.

You have to have a balance and understand that as much as you would like to have absolute control over everything, it's just not realistic.

After my election there was talk of a postracial America. And such a vision, however well intended, was never realistic.

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping

I'm a hopeless romantic. I consider myself a realistic person who usually finds stories from real life people.

Every artist obviously wants to sell a million records and do the MTV cribs thing, but I'm realistic.

I had a very realistic expectation of the level of success that it was possible to attain writing romance novels.

Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst ... which often, never comes.

There were some who wanted all the benefits of E.U. membership without any of the costs. I'm not sure that's very realistic.

I think, at some point, I might have said it must be great to be as big as Elvis, but that wasn't a realistic dream.

I wouldn't play the normal girl. I don't think that that's interesting or realistic, as far as how human beings really are.

As soon as anyone starts telling you to be "realistic," cross that person off your invitation list.

I wrote Baghdad Central right after translating a great work by Ibrahim al-Koni, who is sort of a master of Arab fiction. In conversations with him I realized that translations have been my MFA program. If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so that I can do it in English. That's how I've figured it out.

Reality and fiction are really mixed up. The frontier between reality and fiction is tremendously porous and slippery. And in fact, when I remember something that has happened to me a long time ago, let's say twenty years ago, many times I'm not sure if I have actually lived what I am recalling, or I have dreamed about it, or I have written about it, or I have imagined it all.

In a sense, journalism can be both helpful and detrimental to a writer of fiction because the kind of writing you need to do as a journalist is so different. It has to be clear, unambiguous, concise, and as a writer often you are trying to do things that are more ambiguous. I find that writing fiction is often an antidote to reading and writing too much journalism.

Sadly, I think that 'Children of Men' has only become an increasingly relevant and realistic portrait of where we are in the world.

You have to do what the story demands, but inside of those constraints, I try to inject as much realistic physics as I'm allowed to.

If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

I write fiction longhand. That's not so much about rejecting technology as being unable to write fiction on a computer for some reason. I don't think I would write it on a typewriter either. I write in a very blind gut instinctive way. It just doesn't feel right. There's a physical connection. And then in nonfiction that's not the case at all. I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand.

Realistic thinking is based on what others think is possible-but they are not you and have no way of knowing your potential and purposes

With realistic and deglamourised roles and live sound, the charisma of a star is not enough. Can you be many different people?

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

When your mates break up with their boyfriends, it's hard to see, but not all relationships last forever. Let's be realistic.

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I could have read in Arabic.

I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

It's a good line to say we're going to get money out of politics. I don't know how realistic it is.