Books Quote by Pat Conroy

“If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if…

— Ernest Hemingway

“But stories are just tools. They should not become our goals or our yardsticks. When we forget that they are mere fiction, we lose…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyline as an emotional yearning embedded in a deep…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“When I began writing this story, I thought I had some idea of what it was about. I was wrong. In my life writing…

— Richard Paul Evans

“Sometimes, a story is just the thing we tell ourselves to escape the ordinariness of a life that has no tale to tell at…

— A.J. Grayson

Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a…

— Rebecca Solnit

“And every writer cherishes the dream of setting the young on fire, even if only by a cigarette butt tossed casually over the shoulder,…

— Clive James

“The places and people in the following stories have been represented accurately to the best of my ability; yet my writing is supposed to…

— Eric Sloane

“Maybe story is just for the assembling of things -- history, imagination, fact -- without which . . . our lives will dissipate, losing meaning and coherence.”

— Katharine Haake

“I even read aloud the part of the novel I had rewritten, which is about as low as a writer can get and much…

— Ernest Hemingway

“we are never more (and sometimes less) than the co-authors of our own narratives.”

— Alasdair MacIntyre

“...writing a novel is buttering warm toast, while writing a history is herding porcupines with your elbows.”

— Thomas King