Books Quote by Antonio Tabucchi

I saw literature as a fantasy, no less absorbing for all its irrelevance - a parallel life, as dreams shadow waking but never intersect…

— Edmund White

I think fantasy literature is the one true literature of hope and imagination.

— Vera Nazarian

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

— Paula Fox

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to…

— Salman Rushdie

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It…

— Abraham Verghese

I'm trying to earn a living in the way that is most enjoyable to me. I love the world of literature, and I hope…

— Jamaica Kincaid

In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures,…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.

— Michael Moore

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.

— Tillie Olsen

Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is…

— Jonathan Stroud

I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.

— Shane Warren Jones

Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.

— Antonio Tabucchi