Books Quote by Colum McCann

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

— Colum McCann

“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

“Each literature bears its freight of the eclipsed; each generation shows us writers in the process of disappearing.”

— Keith Botsford

“Sometimes the story is still missing because it's still waiting to be written.”

— Katie Kacvinsky

“I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.”

— Paul Auster

“Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Writing a book is like pulling strands out of your soul, one by one, until one day instead of a mess it finally looks…

— Ksenia Anske

“This is the thing about great literature. It reads like truth and sticks to you forever and lets you know that you are not…

— Arlaina Tibensky

“Give a hundred writers the same idea and you'll get a hundred different stories.”

— Joy Fielding

“Literature isn't true/ It's just something that we do”

— Susanne Christensen

“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.”

— Cyril Connolly

“Writers write for the same reason readers read. We want to know how it ends, too.”

— Robynn Tolbert