Realist Quotes

I’m a realist and a dreamer. There are certain things you can give certain people and certain things you can’t.

I’m not sexist, I’m just a realist.

I am surprised by the word psychedelic. João Gilberto Noll does not accept realism in a straightforward way, but I am more inclined to call Quiet Creature a realist text than I am to call it a psychedelic one.

I’m a realist. And realists don’t fool themselves.

We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality.

There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.

When I use the term “complex realism”, what I’m suggesting is that the writer must be realist, always realist, but not realist in the sense we have usually used the term in literature.

It’s the best thing if your work is your passion in life. It makes me feel like I’m always on break.

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.