Books Quote by Cory Doctorow

“Sometimes a story does not make immediate sense—one has to listen and keep it in one’s heart, in one’s blood, until the day it…

— Ishmael Beah

“The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that we are, all of us,…

— J. Aleksandr Wootton

“Reading lives is the primary activity. Reading literature, although we engage in it more intentionally and more mindfully, is the secondary one. We are…

— William L. Randall

“Stories give you a way to see things. A way to understand the events of your life. Even if you don't realize it while…

— Matthew Kirby

“Audiences love both the feeling part (reliving the life) and the thinking part (figuring out the puzzle) of a story. Every good story has…

— John Truby

“People grow up listening to all kinds of stories, but that doesn't mean they all want to spend their whole lives studying them.”

— Amy Reed

Reading is also a creative activity if you're doing it right. You can learn more from a story that's left the tracks than from…

— John Dufresne

“To follow the analogy, as a Reader, you're not part of the story, you just insert yourself into it for a while.”

— Django Wexler

“The importance of a story doesn't merely lie in the development of its plot and the characters involved in it, but in its exploration…

— Gulzar

I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for…

— John McGahern

“When you're inside your own story, you don't see things like a reader. You don't see your life in tidy paragraphs and chapters.”

— Jerry Spinelli

“...There is no such thing as a story. The words on paper are only instructions used by each reader to create a story. The…

— Damon Knight