Books Quote by Anne Michaels

One of the things I have noticed about my novels is that they all concern people who can't quite bring themselves to tell the…

— John Lanchester

The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how…

— Maeve Binchy

I want us to all look at ourselves and look at our stories. It doesn't matter where you come from or what journeys you've…

— Diane Guerrero

“So we grow up in a sea of stories told in a way that fits what we want others to know about us. The…

— Dan B. Allender

Story is the mother of us all. First we wrap our lives in language and then we act on who we say we are.…

— Christina Baldwin

“What we put in and leave out of our stories tells us something about who we are.”

— Eddie S. Glaude Jr

“[This story] would seem to be for children, but I'm not fussy who reads it.”

— E. B. White

“It sounds nicer than it seems in the book," she would say. "I never cared about Mary, Queen of Scots, before, and I always…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“My stories aren’t for everyone—they were never meant to be—but”

— Kevin J. Anderson

“Stories find their way in each of us.”

— Sarah Buhl

I've written a book about my mother, and I don't remember anyone going to Antigua or calling up my mother and verifying her life.…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.”

— Mitch Albom