Agreement Quote by John Updike

Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with glorious misery.

— Lynn Freed

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

— Elizabeth Bowen

"There are no illusions" - This is a gross illusion.

— Frederick Lenz

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I…

— Tayari Jones

At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.

— Aprilynne Pike

“Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth. Roll up that tender air and the plant dies, the colour fades. The…

— Virginia Woolf

“Life in illusion is in a transient belief on insight without perspective”

— Farley Maglaya

“The novel does not say, it shows; it shows me my life in a figure: it compels me to stare at my toes.”

— William H. Gass

We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick…

— Libba Bray

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

Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is stretching for…

— Roger Rosenblatt

Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

— W. Somerset Maugham