Realism Quotes

Even with all the documents, you can never forge nature

Auguste Rodin

The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living or dead is entirely coincidental, are fraudulent every time. A writer has no other material to make his people from than the people of his experience ... The only thing the writer can do is to recombine parts, suppress some characterisitics and emphasize others, put two or three people into one fictional character, and pray the real-life prototypes won't sue.

Wallace Stegner

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

Terry Pratchett

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.

Paula Fox

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

Oscar Wilde

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality

Virginia Woolf

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Albert Einstein