Grisha, a fat, solemn little person of seven, was standing by the kitchen door listening and peeping through the keyhole.
Anton ChekhovStichwörter: humor realism loss-of-innocence the-cook-s-wedding tragi-comedy
[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.
Perry AndersonStichwörter: politics stoicism realism consolation resistance-movement silver-linings
When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.
Don DeLilloStichwörter: reading reality writing literature familiarity novels interpretation readers realism translation robert-mccrum
Moral writing is boring.
Johan Van WykStichwörter: literature south-africa realism black-humour
People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is.
An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist.
An idealist focuses only on the best aspects of all things (sometimes in detriment to reality); an optimist strives to find an effective solution. A pessimist sees limited or no choices in dark times; an optimist makes choices.
When bobbing for apples, an idealist endlessly reaches for the best apple, a pessimist settles for the first one within reach, while an optimist drains the barrel, fishes out all the apples and makes pie.
Annoying? Yes. But, oh-so tasty!
Stichwörter: optimism pessimism energy pessimist hope apple choices realism realist apples optimist optimistic annoying bobbing energetic
I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.
Flannery O'ConnorStichwörter: faith atheism realism
Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.
G.K. ChestertonStichwörter: realism
...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to be like fiction.
Sarah CaudwellStichwörter: realism humor-fiction-writing
I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.
Charlotte BrontëStichwörter: empowerment gender women freedom identity integrity self-determination independence self-awareness character flaws realism image ideal-woman
One of the most brilliant Russian writers of the twentieth century, Yevgeny Zamyatin belongs to the tradition in Russian literature represented by Gogol, Leskov, Bely, Remizov, and, in certain aspects of their work, also by Babel and Bulgakov. It is a tradition, paradoxically, of experimenters and innovators. Perhaps the principal quality that unites them is their approach to reality and its uses in art - the refusal to be bound by literal fact, the interweaving of reality and fantasy, the transmutation of fact into poetry, often grotesque, oblique, playful, but always expressive of the writer's unique vision of life in his own, unique terms.
Mirra GinsburgStichwörter: writing writers fantasy realism russian-literature russian-author zamyatin
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