Books Quote by Amy Tan

Just like all my novels, 'Illusion' is a good way to observe where Frank Peretti was in his life when he wrote it.

— Frank Peretti

The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator.

— Paul LePaul

Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others

— William Gibson

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.

— David Blaine

The art of a magician is not found in the simple deception, but in what surrounds it, the construction of a reality which supports…

— Jim Steinmeyer

Nothing must be left to chance in a magical performance. Everything conducive to enhancing the mystery of the illusions must be arranged with painstaking…

— David Devant

“I see what I did not see. I experience that which is outside my own experience. This is the magic of reading novels. This…

— Siri Hustvedt

“The imagination is not a faculty for the creation of illusion; it is the faculty by which alone man apprehends reality. The ‘illusion’ turns…

— Harold Clarke Goddard

While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.

— Yayoi Kusama

any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.

— Sue Grafton

I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of illusions.

— Sergio Chejfec