Quotes of: Story-books Keyword

The doctor's wife ate two apples a day, just to be safe. But her husband kept coming home.

The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1

Do you ever hide books you've read over and over again because you're so sick of them?' 'Oh, definitely. When they ask for them, I say the book fairy came to get it. One time they saw one of the books at the library, so now they think the librarians ...

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

Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.

The Book of Tomorrow

I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.

John McGahern

David could tell, by looking at her face as she read, whether or not the story contained in the book was living inside her, and she in it, and he would recall again all that she had told him about stories and tales and the power that they wield over ...

The Book of Lost Things

Despite the fact that he loves books and owns a bookstore, A.J. does not particularly care for writers. He finds them to be unkempt, narcissistic, silly, and generally unpleasant people. He tries to avoid the ones who've written books he loves for fe...

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Every book is a world.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

She was wearing a beautiful dress with straps designed to be eaten off her shoulders.

The Book of Happy Endings: True Stories about Finding Love

Mapmaker mapmaker make me a map one to one scale, without a single gap. Map every rock, every thought, every tree and erase all the territory.

The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 2

Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we bought books.

Papa Is a Poet: A Story About Robert Frost

Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.

Postscript to the Name of the Rose

My skyscraper of a heart met an earthquake of a woman. Why can’t I meet a simple window washer? My love is a hundred stories tall—and I wrote every single one of those stories.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

Philip Pullman

I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started ...

Bob Schieffer

We can never stop searching for Heaven, since there is always more of it than we can see. There, as in those tales that evolve endlessly into other tales, stories have no end. They are hardly ever the stories you know, the official ones, in which wis...

The Book of Heaven: A Novel

If the characters are not wicked, the book is." We must tell stories the way God does, stories in which a sister must float her little brother on a river with nothing but a basket between him and the crocodiles. Stories in which a king is a coward, a...

G.K. Chesterton

Want to inspire your kids to read more? Try giving them kids some money to spend just on a book. Take them to a bookstore and let them browse and pick out one book that they will love. Or try going to a local library for a few hours and just let your...

The Bible's Story: Saga of the Savior King

Before unearthing this letter, I had questioned myself about the ways in which a book can be infinite. I could think of nothing other than a cyclic volume, a circular one. A book whose last page was identical with the first, a book which had the poss...

Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

A good book makes you want to live in the story. A great book gives you no choice.

Life

Kalau melihat kesuksesan orang lain, seharusnya kita jangan mau kalah.

Bieber Love Story Book

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

Talulah Riley