Books Quote by Stefanos Livos Download Open image ““Literature is the real life of imaginary people.”” — Stefanos Livos ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Fiction Imaginary Imaginary People Imagination Life Life Imaginary Literature Literature Real Real life Stories
“The writers we love often serve us through their comfort and example without their ever knowing it, and in this sense, they're as imaginary… — Patricio Pron Copy Share Image
“The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.” — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
“Writers need their writing; they need their imaginary worlds in order to find piece in, or make sense of, the real world.” — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“A good novel is the biography of an imaginary person--and when the biography is completed, the person is no longer imaginary; he is as… — William Edmund Barrett Copy Share Image
“Real life is often more literary than the works of literature. That’s because it doesn’t have to appear credible.” — Mikhail Iossel Copy Share Image
“Writers of literature, if they are real writers, know that their readers are confused about reality and the emotions derived from that reality and… — Noah Cicero Copy Share Image
All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them… — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“This might sound a little nutty, but to write fiction is to live in an invented world with a set of imaginary friends.” — April Lindner Copy Share Image
“No secret can remain hidden for ever. Silently and patiently, it waits in the dark. It lets you build your life, carefully stacking the… — Stefanos Livos Copy Share Image
“These two oo in "book" are like the two eyes of a reader who fell in love with a story.” — Stefanos Livos Copy Share Image
“That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn’t match reality.” — Stefanos Livos Copy Share Image
“That’s what love is like: mother of the greatest bliss and stepmother of the most tragic misery.” — Stefanos Livos Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
