Books Quote by Yevgeny Zamyatin

True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a…

— Orhan Pamuk

Every author that creates is a liar;literature is a lie,but from that lie, a recreation of reality is born. Therefore, recreating reality is one…

— Juan Rulfo

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

— Paul de Man

there are elements of truth in all great fiction

— Teresa Medeiros

Literature exists because the world isn't enough.

— Fernando Pessoa

“Literature cannot be reality in a same way as literature cannot be idealistic.”

— Shankar Lamichhane

All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.

— Kate Morton

They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel.

— Kevin Kwan

There's truth and then there's fiction - I think truth does exist and you can present it.

— Ioan Gruffudd

Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary...

— Alberto Manguel

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

— Gao Xingjian

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

— Italo Calvino