Book Quote by Italo Calvino

Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life…

— Italo Calvino

We read books to find out who we are.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

We are a collage of our interests, our influences, our inspirations, all the fragmentary impressions we've collected by being alive and awake to the…

— Maria Popova

Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?

— Scott Turow

Our minds are shaped by the books we read. Our characters, by the people we meet. Our spirits by the love we give.

— Anonymous

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“We have, each of us, a life-story, an inner narrative — whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. It might be said that each…

— Oliver Sacks

If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a…

— Oliver Sacks

Not only who am I, but who are we? And where are we going? It's the "we." It's the social connections that are special…

— Sylvia Earle

...along with the other animals, the stones, the trees, and the clouds, we ourselves are characters within a huge story that is visibly unfolding…

— David Abram

Who are we?' And to me that's the essential question that's always been in science fiction. A lot of science fiction stories are -…

— David Gerrold

I remain curious about all the lives I can't have - and about the lives of others, real and imagined, past and present, and…

— Jay Neugeboren