Quotes of: Story-books Keyword

The most important events in every age never reach the history books.

The Dark Tower and Other Stories

It always puzzled him, when he was a child, that a woman who wrote books for a living should be so bad at telling bedtime stories.

Elizabeth Costello

That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines she'd always believed took their fate into their own hands.

Envy

Each drop that fell, had a story to tell. each smile that curved, said a million words. (Poem: Our Existence, Book: Ginger and Honey)

Ginger and Honey

A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own.

The Garden of Letters

It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make.

Christian Slater

He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.

Zack Snyder

Meggie thought this first whisper sounded a little different from one book to another, depending on weather or not she already knew the story it was going to tell her.

Inkheart

When you feel that unpleasant darkness invading your mind, read this book and these stories will help you return to the light and warmth of life.

The Reengineers

I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.

Shamanspace

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

Slammerkin

The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book." ( , 3 October 1892)

Selected Prose

I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca. Simply put, the best books have both, and the best writers disparage neither.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

I loved the story but also enjoyed the format of the book, which includes e-mail messages. Janice L. Jones

Forever Until We Meet

Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story.

Penelope Lively

You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put them out like a book.

Shelby Lynne

I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

Salman Rushdie

Aside from the Rizzoli & Isles books, there are many other stories I want to write. The question is whether I'll live long enough to write them all!

Tess Gerritsen

Now and then I am asked as to ‘what books a statesman should read,’ and my answer is, poetry and novels – including short stories under the head of novels.

Theodore Roosevelt

Maybe I'll open a bookstore," he smiled. "New and used books-- so everyone has a chance to see the world through the pages of a story.

Karen Kingsbury