Altered Quote by Jeanette Winterson

Literature takes reality and human experience as its starting point, transforms it by means of the imagination, and sends readers back to life with…

— Leland Ryken

“Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different. It can give you the feeling that you belong…

— Wendy Lesser

Literature is about telling stories.

— Amos Oz

“Our future depends on stories. As the world advances, literature has the ability to ground us—in our humanness, our imaginations, and our enlightenment.”

— Pawan Mishra

I can’t explain how it is I keep having new ideas. But one book inevitably follows another. It is my way of exploring the…

— Virginia Hamilton

Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s end….Then, again,…

— Anonymous

In any adaptation, the challenge is to take the essence of the original source of the material, be faithful to it to a point,…

— Marc Platt

Literature has the power to change lives, minds, and hearts.

— Anonymous

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

— Colum McCann

“We all fictionalize ourselves in the process of creating a story out of the raw materials of our life. For some it is a…

— Neil McCormick

Stories are one thing that will be constant in life. Whether told, written, reenacted they are a fundamental part of human nature.

— Jessica Shirvington

“We read literature for a number of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our own…

— Maureen Corrigan