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Find a right and a beautiful idea; stick to it tightly and drag it strongly from your mind to the reality!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Ah youth, youth! That's what happens when you go steeping your soul into Shakespeare
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.
— Virginia Woolf
Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake.
Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a means and not as an end. — Max Jacob
Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a means and not as an end. — Max Jacob
That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn't match reality.
— Stefanos Livos
The rain dripping off the roof is bigger than literature, bigger than art. No word or image can contain it.
— Marty Rubin
Literature is a struggle over the nature of reality.
— Richard Wright
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.
— Marisha Pessl
Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.
— Romain Gary
No, Ben. What I'm asking is: Are you the vehicle, and Georgie rides around in you? That is why Ben's the driver, right?
— Jonathan Harnisch
Illusion is whatever is fixed or definable, and reality is best understood as its negation ...
— Northrop Frye
Rationality is the way to lead life. So high time,
let's stop feeding our dreams and shake hands with the reality. — Parul Wadhwa
let's stop feeding our dreams and shake hands with the reality. — Parul Wadhwa
A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
— Joseph Conrad
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
— J.G. Ballard
Happily-ever-after monogamy has been reinforced so steadily in literature that we tend to feel like failures when we don't achieve that in reality.
— Colleen Chen
Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary ...
— Alberto Manguel
Real people are made out of a whole lot of things - flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out of words.
— Thomas C. Foster
Literature cannot be reality in a same way as literature cannot be idealistic.
— Shankar Lamichhane
The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.
— Northrop Frye
He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods; the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted.
— C.S. Lewis
We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction ...
— Simone De Beauvoir
I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.
— Shane Warren Jones
Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.
— Chinua Achebe
Whatever you have in your mind, it always carries the potential to come into existence in the world of reality!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Friendship is merely a glorified expression. In reality it is nothing but a reciprocal outpouring of slops.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky