Books Quote by Colum McCann

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

— Jessica Shirvington

Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale of any…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

— Flannery O'Connor

“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

...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.

— Norman Maclean

I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literature—not for long, of course, but long enough to be what…

— Norman Maclean

As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again.…

— Natalie Goldberg

Sometimes, a writer's life alone can tell a story.

— Howard Jacobson

Everyone's life is a story. Some are just bestsellers.

— Anonymous

Literature is about telling stories.

— Amos Oz

I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its isolation and…

— Ellen Ullman

Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget…

— Barbara Kingsolver