Books Quote by Mehmet Murat Ildan

We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.

— Frank Kermode

As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies,as a form of abstract…

— J. M. Coetzee

The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.

— Kurt Vonnegut

We're a very imaginative species; we're very good at creating fictions.

— Emma Mackey

The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary…

— Novalis

I don't believe that anything's totally invented... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it.

— Helen Garner

Imagination bound us stronger than love. Within its limitless borders we launched ships and love affairs, discovered lost worlds, made buildings and babies, found…

— Marita Golden

Literature exists because the world isn't enough.

— Fernando Pessoa

Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced…

— Azar Nafisi

We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.

— Edwidge Danticat

When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.

— Mario Vargas Llosa