“We read to find out what the world is like, to experience lots of lives, not just the one we live. If it is true that our lives are chaotic and we crave a shape, stories are the shapes that we put on experience, containing all the wisdom in the world. We can even choose what kind of wisdom suits us.” IfsWorldKindStoriesWisdomEducationLearningOur LivesShapesSuitsCraveChaoticContaining Author:Ramona Koval
“Books that recount ordeals are precious because an ordeal is what we most fear, and the stories that tell us how to survive them reassure us about what a human being is capable of, as we survive our own lives every day, our own mysterious journeys.” HumansBookStoriesHuman BeingsEducationLearningJourneyCapableMysteriousOrdealsLive Every Day Author:Ramona Koval
“I learned that books could be collected, that they were important enough to keep and that a story that seemed to be over could be part of a bigger one.” ImportantBookEnoughStoriesEducationLearningBigger Author:Ramona Koval
“Not only does art imitate life but life imitates art. Perhaps we not only learn about life from stories, perhaps we make our lives through the stories we tell ourselves about the things that happen to us.” DoeArtStoriesHappensEducationLearningOur Lives Author:Ramona Koval
