Books Quote by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

— Colum McCann

If it is true ... that no one has a life worth thinking about whose life story cannot be told, does it not then…

— Hannah Arendt

I would never never read a work of fiction and want to know about the person's life.

— Jamaica Kincaid

But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story...

— David Clement-Davies

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

— Anonymous

With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character.

— Olivia Munn

There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting to people,…

— Augusten Burroughs

The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very…

— Steven Erikson

“There's an enormous difference between being a story writer and being a regular person. As a person, it's your duty to stay on a…

— Rick Bass

Think of a book special to you, and how much bleaker and poorer your life would be if that one writer had not existed…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

If you can discover what you like, if you can discover what you truly believe about most of the major matters of life, you…

— Dorothea Brande

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

— Howard Jacobson