Books Quote by Jane Smiley

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

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

— Paula Fox

“Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is a novel without narration. A poem is the…

— Fernando Pessoa

Those are the two things: a sense of loving and being loved, and being creative - that is what life is made up of,…

— Robert Dessaix

Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into.

— Julio Cortazar

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

“This isn’t the case with literature. Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is a novel…

— Fernando Pessoa

Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts very differently:…

— Brian Boyd

Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits…

— Northrop Frye

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

— William Stafford

I completely believe that - literature for me is a way of life. That's probably true of all writers or all artists. I think…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they…

— Rita Dove