Quotes of: Holy-book Keyword

Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of ...

Anthony Browne

Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.

J. Michael Straczynski

And then ... perhaps someone will write a book about making a film about a story that is taken from this book which is taken from a real-life story that was copied from a story in a book. You know?

The Kills

Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It is not you who reads the book, the book reads you

The Shaman And The Droll

because we all know that the books we’ve loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly

The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia

They will need you to put the right books in their hands, book in which they can lose themselves and books in which they can find themselves.

Notice & Note: Strategies for Close Reading

Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.

The Name of This Book Is Secret

I want to type one of my books into a free online translation website, and convert it from English to German and then publish the results as an exercise in the absurd.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

My favorite smells are freshly baked bread, the pages of an old book, and they way my boss’ ass smells when he’s shouting at me.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

People are like books. You can either read them, or you can burn them. But before I try to read you, I’ve got to ask, Are you a heretic?

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I hope you enjoy reading my book as much as I didn’t enjoy writing it. Just kidding! I hope you don’t enjoy it at all.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I love ebooks. I love the idea of storing books in “The Cloud”, because honestly, reading and rainy days go together like peanut butter and umbrellas.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

If this book looks like it took me 15 minutes to put together, that’s because it did! 30 seconds to write it, and 14.5 minutes to illustrate it. (The translating was instantaneous).

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I read trash. Empty cereal boxes, empty shampoo bottles, the bottoms of empty Kleenex boxes, and occasionally even a mystical self-help book.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

You can believe history books when they tell you when wars were fought. You just can’t trust them as to why.

This Book Has No Title

So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.

The Writing Life

Through a history book, I can time travel. Especially a history book from the future. 

Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

It only takes one minute to find a really good book, but it can give you a lifetime of memories when you read a really good book that leaves you with lasting impression.

Nahisha McCoy

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

Ray Bradbury

I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom.

Story Musgrave

I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.

Salman Rushdie