Quotes of: Story-books Keyword

In Chinese love stories the one who loves always starts by borrowing a book from the beloved.

Once on a Moonless Night

The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.

Leslie Banks

I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.

Erin Morgenstern

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

Dean Koontz

The story follows the whole family. But pretty much all the characters who are in jail have written a book about it, so you've got their perspective of it, however skewed they want you to see it.

Marguerite Moreau

A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.

Chris Van Allsburg

Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.

Carmen Agra Deedy

I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.

Christine Feehan

The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York Harbor.

Edward St Aubyn

I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books to be read aloud, and I think of myself in that oral tradition.

Louis L'Amour

The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

Iris Chang

To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.

Aleksandar Hemon

A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.

Alexander Payne

I knew the story of 'War Horse' very well. I had read the book even before I did the auditions. I'm a big fan of Michael Morpurgo.

Celine Buckens

I am not my sister. Words from the books curl around each other make little sense until I read them again and again, the story settling into memory. my teacher says. the teacher says. . But I don't want to read faster or older or any way else that mi...

Brown Girl Dreaming

Many of the best fantastic stories begin in a leisurely way, set in commonplace surroundings, with exact, meticulous descriptions of an ordinary background, much as in a 'realistic' tale. Then a gradual - or it may be sometimes a shockingly abrupt - ...

The Fantasy Book: An Illustrated History From Dracula To Tolkien

As soon as we got back I ran upstairs and told everyone the story, thus telling everyone the alarm code, thus breaking one of the Ten Commandments when I lied and said I’d keep the code a secret. As I’ve known for a long, long time now, hell is g...

The Book Bindery

It seems that the Parisian Oulipo group has recently constructed a matrix of all possible murder-story situations and has found that there is still to be written a book in which the murderer is the reader. Moral: there exist obsessive ideas, they are...

Postscript to the Name of the Rose

I hate when people ask what a book is about. People who read for plot, people who suck out the story like the cream filling in an Oreo, should stick to comic strips and soap operas. . . . Every book worth a damn is about emotions and love and death a...

J.R. Moehringer

I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was reading, so I decided that I would write a book about something I'd want to read if I was 16. It turned into a Cinderella story... I developed a pr...

Cecily von Ziegesar

[Charlie is pulling Raymond's books off the shelves, leaving Raymond nervous] Charlie: You read The Twelth Night? Raymond: I don't know. V-E-R-N. Charlie: You read Macbeth? Raymond: Yes. Charlie: So you read all these stories and you don't know if yo...

Rain Man