“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between stories.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“Then I understood that when someone begins to tell you her story, you are entwined together. Perhaps even more so if the ending hasn’t been divulged. It was exactly like dreaming the same dream, then waking too soon and never finding out what I had happened.”— Alice Hoffman, amazon.com
“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure in the landscape — the loneliness of it — the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.”— Andrew Wyeth, foxnews.com
“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”— William Styron, amazon.com
“I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me…I would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a whore, and then come back to write about my thoughts, my emotions, as that p…”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”— Maurice Sendak, harpers.org
“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.”— Richard Wright, amazon.com
“Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we’re only what we’ve done and what we are going to do.”— Jodi Lynn Anderson, amazon.com
“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.”— John Green, goodreads.com
“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”— Frank Herbert, sinanvural.com
“I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Ideas are a huge, huge blessing. That’s the thing you try to catch – an idea that you fall in love with.”— David Lynch, the-talks.com
“We're all hardwired to make sense of the world by telling and being told stories.”— Craig Benzine, youtube.com