Literature Quotes

"You don't know about me without you have read a book called The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."

"That was I. That was the author of this book."

"We are all storytellers at heart."

"I love romance, even if it's not always happy."

"I like good strong words that mean something."

"Books are our finest friends in our loneliness."

"It's really a very interesting book."

"You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."

"If you don't have a story, what you have is a report."

"My life is nothing but a narrative. It says only what I wish it to say."

"That's what fiction is about, isn't it—the selective transforming of reality."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story."

"Water can quench thirst. Stories can quench other kinds of thirst."

"There was some books too, and things in them that warn't true."

"But the more I think about it, the more I realize that a story is the only way to express the truth."

"Stories are the things that stick. Explanations are clear but forgettable."

"Books and harlots offer the same stirrings of the blood."

"All fiction is autobiographical."

"All books are ultimately about the same thing."

"There ain't nothing more to write about."

"I don't see how anybody can write about anything if they don't write about what they know."

"Books are made to be read and they are what they are."

"I would like to believe this is a story I'm telling."

"Telling stories is a way of having power."

"There ain't nothing more to write about, and I am rotten glad of it."

"Language is how we make meaning"

"Writing was the only way to atone."

"Writing is the truth of the imagination."

"Writing allowed her to control the narrative."

"The body is text. The body is a story."