Quotes About Realism

My dad always believed in me. He was always kind of, 'All right, buddy, if that's what you want to do...' My mom was always more of a realist.

I like to be an optimist, but I like to be a realist, too.

I'm not sexist, I'm just a realist.

The common belief is that you are either a dreamer or a realist. But idealism and pragmatism aren't as far apart as one might think.

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

Today, I don't have any psychological scars, because I am a realist and an optimist. After all, I can't lose my legs twice.

I learned you have to move fast, writing futuristic satire in America: Before you know it, you're a realist!

I'm a realist, and so we have to take what exists and continue to struggle to move forward.

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism,' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream. I mean, in a certain sense, Suzan-Lori's plays have had mainstream levels of success. But Suzan-Lori is in some ways not a narrative realist.

The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.

The fact is, for all the critics' talk about me as a realist, I'm making everything up - everything. It is all about imagining with me.

I consider myself a realist.

I'm very much a realist.

I am a social realist writer.

I was quite excited, but I was sure I wouldn't win the race. I am a realist.

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

I'm a realist and I always have been.

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

I like to think I'm some savage realist.

The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need to impart mere information, or mirror anything. I am not a realist writer, even if I seem like one.

I write from what I take to be the realist's point of view, looking at life as it really is - or the way I see it to be.

'Line of Duty' is a social realist drama, so it's set in a world that has the recognisable features of the authentic world we see around us.

I'm a very positive person, but I'm a realist too.