#realism

Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who talks to his characters or harbours any illusions about the creative process. But at the same time, I think it's juvenile and arrogant when literary writers compulsively remind their readers that the characters aren't real. People know that already. The challenge is to make an intelligent reader suspend disbelief, to seduce them into the reality of a narrative. ↗

— Michel Faber

#realism #short-stories #intelligence

A substantial amount of research over the past decade has reinforced the idea that although internal happiness can deviate from its "resting state" in reaction to life events, it usually returns toward its baseline over time. ↗

— Dan Ariely

#pessimism #phsychology #realism #social-sciences #life

Music can transport you to another time with a couple of notes. It makes you feel the heartbreak or the love, right along with the singer. The right song speaks to your soul in a way nothing else can. It’s magic. ↗

— Cindi Madsen

#paranormal-romance-series #love

Exit, pursued by a bear. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#legend #surrealism #theater #surreal

I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#call #decided #even #hate #high

Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around. ↗

— Terri Windling

#around #been #form #label #latin

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism. ↗

— William Hague

#i #idealism #realism #tempered #thought

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#citizens #make #note #our #positive

Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life. ↗

— Brad Holland

#art #everyday #everyday life #formerly #life

The spirit of life was in them: death can do nothing against the dawning light; death is but a cardboard mask soon consumed by fire. Behind the black flag - which is nothing other than an anti-flag - the garden of all possibilities is hidden, opening out infinitely to the sea. ↗

— Bernard Roger

#life #possibilities #surrealism #death