Quotes About Author

I'm a realist about how the networks work.

In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.

I'm a realist, I understand football and situations in the game.

I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea.

One day, if I had to do a horror movie, it will be a very realistic war movie. For me, war is horror.

I was pretty realistic about my chances of being drafted.

The future has both gritty and savage and clean and 'techno-hip.' I think it's a very realistic point of view.

Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!

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

I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category. Science fiction is not a favorite genre of mine, though I have greatly enjoyed some of the work of Ursula LeGuin. I haven't read much science fiction so I don't know other sci-fi authors.

I had to write about realistic circumstances. That's the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field.

Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think that's all for the good. A lot of people will say to you these days, 'If you are looking for justice, don't go to a courtroom.' That's just a more realistic perspective on what happens in the legal process.

I was very much inspired by the things that I'd seen and done in politics, but I was also desperate for a complete departure from the reality of my political experience. 'It's Classified' and my previous book 'Eighteen Acres' are both works of fiction, but if they do seem realistic, it's by design.

I try to write about realistic people doing realistic things. Or as close as I can get, given that I'm trying to write a suspenseful crime novel.

For some reason, I have always had a really good ability to write children in a way that's realistic but not annoying. The key to that is underwriting them: peel back the dialogue and keep it simple.

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

I always loved ghost stories and haunted house stories, whether they were done in a fantasy way or done in a realistic way.

Basically, it was important to break the belief that commercial filmmakers can't make realistic movies. I broke it.

My father is a realistic person when it comes to the industry.

There are some harsh realities about this business, and they've been beaten into my psyche. But I'm more of an optimist than a pessimist.

I guess I'm just hopelessly fascinated by the realities that you can assemble out of connected fragments.

Even though it is fictional, 'Pose' has really tapped into some realities that I know would come from someone who really took the time to investigate ballroom.

Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.

It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.