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I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.

— John McGahern

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

— Elizabeth Moon

Each reader projects their own version of the experience inside their skull as they go along. It's probably true that no two people read exactly the same book.

— Katherine Dunn

My mind has become somewhat like a book. What I mean by that is that when I look at the world, I see it as a story.

— Avi

I think there's a natural link between the fact that our self is a story that we make up and that we're drawn to stories. It resonates, in a way.

— Mohsin Hamid

This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.

— Rachel Joyce

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

— Philip Reeve

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.

— Geraldine Brooks

✗Opposing Perspectives

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

— George Eliot

To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.

— Aleksandar Hemon

The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story, when you read a book, in a way that is unique and special to each person who reads it.

— Carlton Cuse