Quotes of: Story-books Keyword

Every good story needs a hero. Back when I wrote 'The Search,' that hero was Google - the book wasn't about Google alone, but Google's narrative worked to drive the entire story.

John Battelle

What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.

Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

There ain't nobody in the world like book people. It's a business of gentlemen and gentlewomen.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Human beings need stories, and we're looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it's television, whether it's comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.

Paul Auster

I have an idea for a story, and if the idea is going to work, then one of the characters steps forward, and I hear her voice telling the story. This is what has happened with all the books I've written in the first person.

Laurie Graham

I Drink. I Burn. I Dream. And Sometimes, I tell Stories !

The Book of Promethea

Books were something that happened to readers. Readers were the victims of books.

The Poison Eaters and Other Stories

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

Laura Bush

There are myriad kisses in a relationship: desperate ones as involuntary as breathing, stolen ones on crowded trains, ceremonial ones at the front door, routine ones as dispassionate as licking an envelope. It takes two to kiss, but does it take two ...

The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume One

These days, we've got booksellers in cities, in deserts, and in the middle of a rain forest; we've got travelling bookshops, and bookshops underground. We've got bookshops in barns, in caravans and in converted Victorian railway stations. We've even ...

The Bookshop Book

Listening to Ella furiously and endlessly unfurl the yarns of the Mingus tales, I understood that the need to tell stories is deeply embedded in our minds, and inseparably entangled with the mechanisms that generate and absorb language. Narrative ima...

The Book of My Lives

There were two kinds of students who liked the library: those who devoured one book after another and those who savored the same book repeatedly. Now she understood those rereaders differently ... she realized it was not the rereading that led to fre...

The Story of Beautiful Girl

In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind filled with the busiest, kaleidoscopic dance ...

Robert Louis Stevenson

Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.

The Book of Lost Things

Loaming is my special word for it..it's a combination of looming and roaming

Angel of Fire: Book One of Zach's Story

I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called 'The Package', and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.

Laurie Anderson

They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California book you would find a comparable location, to match that location in California.

Robert Stack

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.

Rex Stout

My mother was an avid reader...She loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes...

Adriana Trigiani