Adventure Quote by Andre Maurois

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

— Andre Maurois

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

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

Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding…

— Gertrude Atherton

The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and at great length. If…

— William Gibson

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

— V. S. Naipaul

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

— Paul Auster

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion…

— John Steinbeck

“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once…

— John Hawkes

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

— Khaled Hosseini

Mistaken identity, of course, has been the province of much postcolonial fiction. An important feature of this writing is the manner in which misrecognition…

— Amitava Kumar

“life rarely finds its exact likeness in a novel, that is hardly fiction’s purpose,”

— Katie Kitamura