Books Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

Fiction is an act of revenge

— John Hawkes

“The job of a fiction writer is to engage the reader and rip them from reality.”

— Tom Wiseman

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 takes reality and human experience as its starting point, transforms it by means of the imagination, and sends readers back to life with…

— Leland Ryken

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

— Richard Wright

“It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to…

— William H. Gass

“Fiction though it is a fiction, should be written in a way that it feels like a reality, a reality every reader willingly or…

— Arti Honrao

Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and…

— John Cheever

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Good fiction creates its own reality.

— Nora Roberts

Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.

— Robert J. Sawyer