Quasi Realist Quotes & Sayings

I think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters. — Cassandra Clare

I've been a fan of vampire fiction since way, way back - I loved Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon, Shirley Jackson, lots of great horror and paranormal fiction. — Rachel Caine

My friends who have babies can't do anything. You can't go out at night. Having a baby is like a DUI from the universe. — Natasha Leggero

With her silence alone she held off, for a moment longer, the suggestion that the worst was over, the tree had fallen, the storm was passing, and time, as she was given to saying, was marching on: school tomorrow, work for their father, laundry, shopping, meals. For just a moment more, she let them linger. — Alice McDermott

We've put songs out on singles and weird little packages that only the real vinyl-philes care about. — Anthony Kiedis

What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own? — Laurell K. Hamilton

If you're from New Jersey," Nathan had said, "and you write thirty books, and you win the Nobel Prize, and you live to be white-haired and ninety-five, it's highly unlikely but not impossible that after your death they'll decide to name a rest stop for you on the Jersey Turnpike. And so, long after you're gone, you may indeed be remembered, but mostly by small children, in the backs of cars, when they lean forward and tell their parents, 'Stop, please, stop at Zuckerman - I have to make a pee.' For a New Jersey novelist that's as much immortality as it's realistic to hope for. — Philip Roth