Costa rica Quote by Carmen Naranjo

“I dare to think that it is this outsized reality, and not just its literary expression, that has deserved the attention of the Swedish…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Literature supplements the lives of people and enables us to feel connected with the world. Shared stories blunt a sense of tragic aloneness, and…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“I find that writing is as magical as the genre I write in. When the story comes alive and takes over, it's truly a…

— K.M. Randall

“On a writer’s path there are always some level of pain and solitude, life and death, love and hate, longing and fullness of soul,…

— Frederick Vanderbuilt

“A writer is an explorer. She knows she wants to get somewhere, but she doesn’t know if the somewhere even exists yet. It is…

— Colum McCann

“Traveling leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller”

— Ibn Battuta

“And when the weariness comes and the nights are sleepless, we will tell each other stories of heroism and hope. We will feed on…

— John Dolan

“A novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and…

— Julien Green

“I love telling stories for a living. The process of writing has its frustrations, but also its joys (there’s no high like typing “The…

— Marcus Sakey

“The air in the strange, familiar environment of this city is dense with story, and it draws me into thinking of life as stories.…

— Teju Cole

“Slowly I discovered that writing was my way of coping with chaos and my cry of freedom, my homage to beauty. Because stories have…

— Vittorio Vandelli