“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.” KnowsBookFallThreeFictionHavensMinesCoupleScience FictionContemporaryEnjoyedGenreCategoriesRealisticSci FiHistoricRealistic Fiction Author:Lois Lowry
“There are very real differences between science fiction and realistic fiction, between horror and fantasy, between romance and mystery. Differences in writing them, in reading them, in criticizing them. Vive les différences! They're what gives each genre its singular flavor and savor, its particular interest for the reader - and the writer.” GivingWritingRealRomanceReadingInterestDifferencesFictionFantasyMysteryParticularReaderHorrorScience FictionGenreCriticizeRealisticFlavorRealistic Fiction Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.” ThinkingFictionDefinitionsInventionSuperiorsRealisticImitationImaginativeRealistic Fiction Book:The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination Source: The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
“I base the roles I choose depending on the characters. That's just how I'm gonna run my career. So if it's a good role I'm gonna take it whether it be fantasy, or whether it be realistic or fiction, anything.” IfsCharacterRunningFictionCareersRolesFantasyRealistic Author:Josh Hutcherson
“For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other treatment is going to have all the heft and realistic honesty of a bedtime fairy tale for five year olds.” YearsStoriesFictionFiveHonestyConflictInjusticeCorruptionViolentTalesFairyFive YearsTreatmentRealisticFairy TaleBedtimeFive Year Olds Author:Richard K. Morgan
“In France, it's always about life, normal life. We always stick with these realistic things. So when French people are dreaming about American movies, they go and see the thrillers, and Westerns, and science fiction, huge entertaining movies.” PeopleDreamFictionHugeNormalScience FictionSticksFranceRealisticEntertainingThrillersNormal LifeAmerican Movie Author:Berenice Bejo
“I think human beings exist in a social world. I write realistic fiction, and so it isn't that surprising that the social realities of their existence would be part of the story.” ThinkingWorldWritingHumansStoriesRealityWould BeSocialHuman BeingsExistenceFictionRealisticSurprisingRealistic Fiction Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“To be perfectly frank: I don't write women's fiction. I write intimate, gritty, realistic, character-driven fiction that happens to be thrown into the women's fiction category.” WritingCharacterHappensFictionDrivenIntimateThrownCategoriesRealisticFrank Author:Jillian Medoff
“I read fiction all the time. It's true that I don't like fantasy or science fiction. I like "realistic" novels, particularly those in which nothing much ever happens.” HappensFictionFantasyNovelScience FictionRealistic Author:Gustavo Perez Firmat
“In fiction, I tend to write fairly realistic dialogue-not always, and it tends to vary from book to book. But in many books, there is a colloquialism of address. The characters will speak in a quite idiosyncratic way sometimes.” WayWritingBookSometimesCharacterSpeakFictionDialogueAddressesRealisticVary Author:Don DeLillo
“Fiction doesn't appeal to me because it can describe physical appearances exhaustively or because it can offer access to the inner depths of an array of human characters - neither that kind of "realism" of bodily surfaces nor of individual psychologies seems particularly realistic to me.” HumansKindCharacterSeemsIndividualFictionPsychologyOffersDepthAppearanceSurfaceAccessAppealsRealisticRealismPhysical Appearance Author:Ben Lerner
“When we look at a good deal of serious modern fiction, and particularly Southern fiction, we find this quality about it that is generally described, in a pejorative sense, as grotesque. Of course, I have found that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.... Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.” WritingLooksStillsAbleCoursesFoundDealsFictionQualityCasesModernSeriousReaderSouthRealisticSouthernFreakGrotesque Author:Flannery O'Connor
“A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.” WorldRealMightPastUnderstandingFictionEventsMethodScience FictionDefinitionsSignificanceRealisticReal WorldSpeculationAdequateThoroughScientific MethodPast And PresentHandyFuture EventsThorough UnderstandingAdequate Knowledge Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“It's once I discover the people inside that the story really gets going, and then the formal invention becomes less important. It's just the way in; it's the door; and then what's behind it is always some kind of people, which I think probably makes me more in the tradition of realistic fiction because that's usually what I'm interested in, the people.” PeopleThinkingWayKindImportantStoriesBehindsFictionDoorsTraditionInventionRealisticFormalRealistic Fiction Author:Jess Walter
“Because I write realistic fiction, I generally don't think about fixing anyone - I just think about how I want to feel at the end of the book - And I try to write toward that feeling.” ThinkingWantFeelsWritingTryingBookEndsFeelingsFictionRealisticFixingRealistic Fiction Author:Jacqueline Woodson
“Any documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never the actual literal truth of an event.” RealityFictionEventsEmotionalHopefullyRealisticDocumentariesNon FictionLiteralHyperCondensation Author:Joe Berlinger
“I'm definitely excited by big ideas, both in what I write and what I read. Most days, reality is so mind-numbingly dull that I don't understand why someone would write strictly realistic stories, given the almost limitless freedom fiction provides. I don't see the point of making believe if you're not going to actually make believe: hang your ass out in the wind, push at every boundary, make almost unreasonable demands on your reader's willingness to suspend disbelief. This is dangerous, and prone to failure, but that's part of what makes it fun.” IfsWritingMindBelieveIdeasStoriesBigsRealityGivenFunFictionDangerousWindReaderDemandExcitedBoundariesAssDullWillingnessRealisticLimitlessDisbeliefUnreasonableMake BelieveBig Ideas Author:Ron Currie Jr.