Behinds Quote by Cornelia Funke

Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world…

— Cornelia Funke

“You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the…

— Anonymous

A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

— Patrick Ness

When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us.

— John Green

“Writing novels allows you to create your own world.”

— Norman Shabel

I am not sure how a novel changes the world. I think it alters a reader's perspective by asking him or her to see…

— Edan Lepucki

“People read books and they find a new world that can change their lives”

— Akita Lovers

“Literature interprets the world, but it's also shaped by that world, and we're living through one of the greatest economic and technological transformations since--well,…

— Lev Grossman

“Writing a story about a place calls that world into existence. Sometimes, as the author, you accompany it for a while. But even as…

— Alan McCluskey

“A long time ago, I opened a book, and this is what I found inside: a whole new world. It isn't the world I…

— Laura Miller

“That's what a good book does-it puts readers on their knees. It makes you want to believe in a world you just read about-the…

— Pat Conroy

“the world itself, too, is changing and changeable. It reveals new phases from time to time, and can be moulded to subserve our purpose.”

— Kaiten Nukariya