Quotes of: Story-books Keyword

children need love most when they don't deserve it

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

The first book I ever read that made me cry. I was seven and hadn’t realized books could do that. Just finish you like that. I was sitting in a beanbag chair in the school library when the book ended, weeping, looking at all the books on the shelve...

The Story Guy

'Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So someone will call 'Die Hard' a 'comic-book movie,' when it has nothing to do with comic books. I'd rather have comics be the vehicle by which stories are told.

Frank Miller

My father never put a book into my hands and never forbade a book. Instead, he let me roam and graze, making my own more or less appropriate selections. I read gory tales of historic heroism that nine-teenth century parents were suitable for children...

The Thirteenth Tale

The more elaborate his labyrinths, the further from the Sun his face.

The Book of Mirdad: The Strange Story of a Monastery Which Was Once Called the Ark

The sex was so passionate it bordered on violence. It was not vanilla. It was passion as suffering

The Book of Happy Endings: True Stories about Finding Love

The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.

The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1

A man touched me:  his hand... my thigh. I touched him too:  my fist... his jaw.

The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1

After you died I realized that I never really like hunting. I just like hanging out with you.

The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 2

Life and Death took a break, weary from their burdensome role. Nobody lived or died that day.

The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 2

Two guys, a goat, and a ghost: A love story based on true events that may or may not be false. Who doesn’t love a good goat story?

This Book is Not FOR SALE

You'll notice that my books offer great variety. Some are for adults, some for children and some for teens. There are mysteries, historical novels, picture books, love stories and stories of crisis and courage.

Sonia Levitin

I told my whole life story in my book.

Heather Mills

When I began writing stories in exercise books I tried to put off all the things I really wanted to write about till at least the second page – I thought it would be like a grown-up book if it became interesting at once.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. 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 that won't do that. But when you find a book that has both good story and good words, t...

Hearts in Atlantis

I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make the connection that books are people's stories, that writing is talking on paper, and I want them to write t...

Patricia Reilly Giff

Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.

The Book of Mirdad: The Strange Story of a Monastery Which Was Once Called the Ark

Less possessing-less possessed. More possessing-more possessed. More possessed-less accessed. Less possessed-more accessed.

The Book of Mirdad: The Strange Story of a Monastery Which Was Once Called the Ark

I don't have time for invisible books when there are so many real books to read.

I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks

I'm ready for another adventure now, take me far away please! Ok one more... But then you have to read to me!

The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1