Quotes of: Story-books Keyword

She didn't see him watching as he played, having no idea that Hans Hubermann's accordion was a story. In the times ahead, that story would arrive at 33 Himmel Street in the early hours of morning, wearing ruffled shoulders and a shivering jacket. It ...

The Book Thief

I once wrote a book ten stories high. Each story was a story.

This Book Has No Title

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

There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. B...

Stephen King

Without story books is like a person with no soul.

Stephen King

His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.

The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1

You don't choose a book the book chooses you

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Stories are life," protested Pico. "Without them, books would be only paper and ink, with them they breathe, the reader is drawn in, the stories become him.

The Book of Flying

There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these are books for adults. Actually, they're just stories, and if they're good stories, then they surpass those boundaries...

L.A. Weatherly

If I read our story backwards, it's about how I un-broke your heart, and then we were happy until one day, you forgot about me forever.

The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1

The ink in the pen that writes success stories is "FOCUS"...

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

She drank in all their compliments and soon she was full of herself.

The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 3

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book. In adult literary fiction, stories are there on sufferance. Other things are felt to be more important: technique, style...

Philip Pullman

A book is much more than a delivery vehicle for its contents.

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession

It's HE-RO," the boy argued. "No," the girl insisted, "it's HER-O.

The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

Fran Lebowitz

'Drown' was always a hybrid book. It's connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the reader to decide which genre they thought the book belonged to more - story, novel, neither, both.

Junot Diaz

This is what I will do from now; I will hurt you.

The Book of Happy Endings: True Stories about Finding Love

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

Shelf Life: Stories by the Book

They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Children need your LOVE especially when they don't deserve it

Salvation Colors: Children's Salvation Story Series, Book one