Quotes About Realism

Finally, I'd like to thank my readers for staying with me all these years. I especially want to thank the ones who understand that the world isn't made up of happy endings, but messy, complicated, and untidy ones.

There is an exuberance in good fantasy quite unlike the most exalted moments of realistic fiction. Both forms have similar goals; but realism walks where fantasy dances.

Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.

Her lips curved up. "That's very Ingrey of you, Ingrey. Always look on the dark side." "Someone has to be realistic, in the midst of this madness!" Now her brows rose, too. She was laughing at him. "Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too. It was my undeserved redemption as well.

I've written all these stories without any pornography, without any obscenity. I grew up among sailors and miners and lumberjacks and the roughest kind men in the world, but I never found it necessary to use all that in the stories. I can make them real without that. I think much of that kind of writing is a coverup for lack of real skill.

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

But, you see, Jo wasn't a heroine, she was only a struggling human girl like hundreds of others, and she just acted out her nature, being sad, cross, listless, or energetic, as the mood suggested. It's highly virtuous to say we'll be good, but we can't do it all at once, and it takes a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together before some of us even get our feet set in the right way.

As to the other three, if they had been perfection they would not have been real girls, and you could not have wept over their trials and laughed over their pleasures.

He didn't promise to always be there. Whatever Ash might think, Harry knew it was impossible. And there was no point in wishing for impossible things.

Unhappy endings might seem more realistic than happy ones, but reality often contained a streak of fantasy that realism lacked.

Our strength is that we don't have any weaknesses. Our weakness is that we don't have any real strengths.

To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Dream big dreams, but never forget that realistic short-term goals are the keys to your success.

Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.

If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.

What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.

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

A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist.

I have no inflated ideas about success anyway.

Many women I know think the ideal of happiness is to be in love with a great man, or to be the wife of a great public success; to share his triumph! They forget you share the man as well!

If you tried to right all the wrongs in the world you'd exhaust yourself in under an hour.

He knew even at an early age of seven, how dangerous it was for someone like him to have hope. He knows how to have no expectations. He can completely control not just what he wants, but what he needs

for things without remedy must be without regard.