Believe Quote by John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

“Perhaps the greatest illusion a writer ever creates is that his work is achieved without great effort or sacrifice. ”

— David Alejandro Fearnhead

“That's the fundamental flaw in the illusion that writers like to maintain, the idea that we can craft anything approaching the truth. No matter…

— Carolyn Parkhurst

“No one cares for reality, everyone stakes his essence on illusion. Slaves and dupes of their self-love, men live not in order to live…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The Man of Truth has learned that Illusion is the One Reality, and that Substance is the Great Impostor.”

— H. P. Lovecraft

“A man may go through life and remain ignorant of himself he may think himself as other than he truly is and he may…

— Barry Unsworth

“people had true knowledge of the world perhaps they would not take up arms and so perhaps he could be an aggregator of information…

— Paulette Jiles

“And it's his illusions about what constitutes the real world which are inhibiting him...His reality, his reason, his society ... These are what must…

— Anonymous

“Blessed is he who believes in the illusion because thus he can find his great truth!”

— Sorin Cerin

“...sense of reality is important in any work of fiction...”

— Stephen King

“With the truth, one cannot live. To be able to live one needs illusions, not only outer illusions such as art, religion, philosophy, science…

— Ernest Becker

“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