Art Quote by Harold Bloom

“The beauty of fiction is it need not be factual and the writer's imagination can travel as far from reality as he or she…

— Sheldon Friedman

“the truth is a matter of the imagination”

— LeGuin, Ursula

“Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality.”

— Richard Wright

“The true magic of novels dwells within us individually. Each reader will interpret every single character, scene, and metaphor in a slightly different way”

— Carl Henegan

“In an era where Existence is incontestable, Truth is subjective, and Reality is perceived, fiction must mediate between the three.”

— Henry Martin

“❝ fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies into meaning.❞”

— dorothy allison

“Fiction has to be well researched, properly conceived and logically presented. Reality needs none of the above.”

— Manoj Vaz

“Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

— Paula Fox

“The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.”

— Charles Simic

“The topography of literature, the fact in fiction,is one of my pleasures -- I mean, where the living road enters the pages of a…

— Paul Theroux

“Certainly, as a reader, I had always discovered the deepest truths in fiction; it was through reading novels that I learned about the world,…

— Alice Hoffman