Quotes of: Story-books Keyword

In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world - God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the ...

Fulton Oursler

I was hugely formed by stories I was told as a child whether that was in a book, the cinema, theatre or television and probably television more than any medium is what influenced me as a child and formed my response to literature, story-telling and, ...

David Tennant

In the '50s, a lot of stories were built around radiation and the proliferation of new technology. In the '70s, there were a lot of stories that dealt with the Vietnam War. So comic books have always been a reflection of the times we live in.

Jim Lee

Even if I never sold another book, I'd keep writing, because the stories are here, in my head. Stories that just need to be told. I love watching a plot unfold, and feeling the surprise when the unexpected happens.

Tess Gerritsen

What excites me about picture books is the gap between pictures and words. Sometimes the pictures can tell a slightly different story or tell more about the story, about how someone is thinking or feeling.

Anthony Browne

I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.

Sally Kirkland

All told, she owned fourteen books, but she saw her story as being made up predominantly of ten of them. Of those ten, six were stolen, one showed up at the kitchen table, two were made for her by a hidden Jew, and one was delivered by a soft, yellow...

The Book Thief

Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of telling yourself the right story about it, which is one t...

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

If I am alive this is my book, and my father lives now in the afterlife that is a book, a thing not vague or virtual but something you can hold and feel and smell because to my mind heaven like life must be a thing sensual and real. And my book will ...

History of the Rain

Until a few days ago, humans had been little more than legend to him, and now here he was in their world. It was like stepping into the pages of a book -- a book alive with color and fragrance, filth and chaos -- and the blue-haired girl moved throug...

Daughter of Smoke & Bone

Agatha had rose-colored cheeks, and thorn-like warts all over her slender neck. When we’d make love, I’d pretend I was Helen Keller and her neck was the Book of Love. I like to think I wrote that book, but I didn’t. Orafoura did.

A Story That Talks about Talking Is Like Chatter to Chattering Teeth, and Every Set of Dentures Can Attest to the Fact That No..

Former civilians did not anticipate how disoriented they would feel as they lost access to their hobbies and interests while being drilled into a pattern of uniformity and sameness. It felt foreign to them to be told when to wake up, how to dress, wh...

When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II

Forgiveness. The ability to forgive oneself. Stop here for a few breaths and think about this because it is the key to making art, and very possibly the key to finding any semblance of happiness in life. Every time I have set out to translate the boo...

This is the Story of a Happy Marriage

You need to know the constituency you belong to...and that is revealed by your constituents. When your constituents are speaking in public and making of stories, your constituency can be "journalism".

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

The old age old story of Yin & Yang...Every positive side has a negative side too. Which are you?

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

Our personal stories of perseverance contain immense wisdom that can assist others in finding their way to peace and illumination during difficult times.

The Book of Simple Human Truths

Laura smiled a little wanly in the twilight. "Far more afraid of flesh and blood than ghosts," she murmured.

The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories

On the way home Mary Lou said, "Some things are so sad you can't say them." But I pretended not to hear.

The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories

The question concerning Jesus: do you want to know the real story, or just the allegory?

The Little Book of Revelation: The First Coming of Jesus at the End of Days

You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get there.

The Pan Book of Horror Stories

As a fiction writer, let me make it up, and let me make it up to you. I’ll pen our love story, if you’ll be my co-author.

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