Quotes of: Story-books Keyword

I read a zombie story, and I have nightmares for days. But my youngest sister loves zombie stories. So when she insisted it was time for Bards and Sages to put together a zombie book, I couldn't tell her 'no.'

Julie Ann Dawson

The further you go, what, I'm gonna wait til I'm 80? Naw, I'm tellin' my story now. I was just moved. I was moved to tell my story. You know? People write books all the time.

Tracy Morgan

Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that pas...

Michael Morpurgo

The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. ...

Mark Twain

You know what? I feel my book is kind of pointless. I didn't want to do a book, but rather than tell the same old stories over and over when my wife Angie and I are out at parties, I could just hand out a bunch of books, and she won't have to hear th...

Al Jourgensen

When guys do books or stories, all I like to see is the truth.

Pete Rose

My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.

Carl Hiaasen

My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.

George Plimpton

Before she came ill, David's mother would often tell him that stories were alive. They weren't alive in the way that people were alive, or even dogs or cats. (...) Stories were different, though: they came alive in the telling. Without a human voice ...

The Book of Lost Things

When you end a chapter in your book of 'Wrong Men,' don't close the book of your love story, just turn the page.

Dating the Wrong Men

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.

The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

And I? I drink, I burn, I gather dreams. And sometimes I tell a story. Because Promethea asks me for a bowl of words before she goes to sleep.

The Book of Promethea

I'm excited about how books work in a digital age. When you read a book, unlike a film, you are decoding symbols in order to 'see' the story, so it is collaborative in a way that a film can never be.

Steven Hall

I don't think with any book you get used to people falling in love with the story. It's been incredible just to realize your books are being read. It's a pretty amazing feeling.

Jennifer Armentrout

Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.

Erica Jong

Angel of Fire is about an ordinary boy to whom extraordinary things happen

Angel of Fire: Book One of Zach's Story

Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

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

I am an elevator in a one-story building. I am ascending. But my love for you is still on the ground floor, waiting for you to push the button.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words.

Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story

She was always saying things like that but I let her be my best friend anyway.

Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories

The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else.

Sharon Olds