Books Quote by Jean Webster

“But I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell. Of course, you pretend…

— John Green

“Anyone who claims that truth is stranger than fiction has never gazed into a writer's mind, or read my stories.”

— Lucian Barnes

“I would probably have to say that reading fiction — those stories fill the space that other people might use religious stories for. The…

— Tom Perrotta

“I am also an author. Please check out my novel, A Life Worth Dreaming About.”

— Nicholas Dettmann

“Books are the essence of life. And there is nothing like a good story to pass the time.”

— Victoria Hislop

“It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than than…

— Richard Wright

“Well, my story, surely, would furnish out a surprising kind of novel, if it were to be well told.”

— Samuel Richardson

“Imagine the story you would most want to read, and then shamelessly write it.”

— J.D. Salinger

“I'm a fiction writer not by choice, but by necessity. It's the only way I can say what I want without having to admit…

— Jack Tate

“Everyone had a story he believed was worthy of a best-seller; for me, reality was rarely interesting enough to take the place of fiction.”

— Ben Mezrich

“Certainly, as a reader, I had always discovered the deepest truths in fiction; it was through reading novels that I learned about the world,…

— Alice Hoffman

“Life might be stranger than fiction, but fiction allows many writers to more accurately portray life to their readers.”

— Jaime Buckley