Books Quote by Amos Oz

Telling a story is like trying to eat grapes with a fork. It's always trying to get away from you. And if you're a…

— Brent Weeks

Telling a story is the way of exploring so many different things - human behavior, society, whatever existence.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

“Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your telling.”

— Hillel F. Damron

Stories are one thing that will be constant in life. Whether told, written, reenacted they are a fundamental part of human nature.

— Jessica Shirvington

Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits…

— Northrop Frye

“Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us—in our humanness, our imaginations, and our enlightenment.”

— Pawan Mishra

Literature usually begets literature.

— Susan Sontag

Literature is about telling stories. Now, the gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the…

— Amos Oz

Stories are at the very heart of being human; they talk about where we're from, where we are, and where we're going. They're like…

— Bill Harley

Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is both journey…

— Jeanette Winterson

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.

— Michael Moore

“Novel is a particular form of narrative./ And narrative is a phenomenon which extends considerably beyond the scope of literature; it is one of…

— Michel Butor