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title: "1 Book Thinking Quotes By Sally Lloyd-Jones"
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> [When we're about telling the best possible story, making the best possible book - we're thinking about the reader, rather than about our egos. And then we serve the story. Not the other way 'round.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-lloyd-jones/when-we-re-about-telling-the-best-possible-story-making-the-best/)

[Sally Lloyd-Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sally-lloyd-jones/)

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## More by Sally Lloyd-Jones

> [When you lose the story that's running like a golden stream underneath all the other stories, you're left with the idea that the Bible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-lloyd-jones/when-you-lose-the-story-that-s-running-like-a-golden-stream/)

[Sally Lloyd-Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sally-lloyd-jones/)

> [When we're about telling the best possible story, making the best possible book - we're thinking about the reader, rather than about our egos.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-lloyd-jones/when-we-re-about-telling-the-best-possible-story-making-the-best/)

[Sally Lloyd-Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sally-lloyd-jones/)

> [If you write for children with respect and treat them with dignity - you'll capture the adults as well. Children deserve nothing but our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-lloyd-jones/if-you-write-for-children-with-respect-and-treat-them-with-dignity/)

[Sally Lloyd-Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sally-lloyd-jones/)

> [When we run from God, we run away from everything that makes us alive and free. We run away from our own happiness. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-lloyd-jones/when-we-run-from-god-we-run-away-from-everything-that-makes-us-alive/)

[Sally Lloyd-Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sally-lloyd-jones/)

> [So that when you come to read the actual Bible you have a lay of the land. And you come to the Bible knowing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-lloyd-jones/so-that-when-you-come-to-read-the-actual-bible-you-have-a-lay-of-the/)

[Sally Lloyd-Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sally-lloyd-jones/)

> [There are lots of stories in the Bible, but all the stories are telling one Big Story. The Story of how God loves his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-lloyd-jones/there-are-lots-of-stories-in-the-bible-but-all-the-stories-are/)

[Sally Lloyd-Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sally-lloyd-jones/)

> [“But Jesus could see inside people. And inside, in their hearts, Jesus saw that they did not love God or other people. They were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-lloyd-jones/but-jesus-could-see-inside-people-and-inside-in-their-hearts-jesus/)

[Sally Lloyd-Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sally-lloyd-jones/)

> [Why the connection with musicians? I think it's because in the end we're doing very similar things - we're telling stories, we're using poetic,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-lloyd-jones/why-the-connection-with-musicians-i-think-it-s-because-in-the-end-we/)

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> [“Jesus told them, "God is like the dad who couldn't stop loving his boy, And people are like the son who said, "Does my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-lloyd-jones/jesus-told-them-god-is-like-the-dad-who-couldn-t-stop-loving-his-boy/)

[Sally Lloyd-Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sally-lloyd-jones/)

> [A picture book is a story told in two languages - word and image. And the illustration is the front door of the book.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-lloyd-jones/a-picture-book-is-a-story-told-in-two-languages-word-and-image-and/)

[Sally Lloyd-Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sally-lloyd-jones/)

> [In a successful picture book, you always want the voice of the text to match the voice of the art; so that it seems…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-lloyd-jones/in-a-successful-picture-book-you-always-want-the-voice-of-the-text-to/)

[Sally Lloyd-Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sally-lloyd-jones/)

> [I wrote The Jesus Storybook Bible because I wanted children to know the Bible isn't mainly about you and what you're supposed to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sally-lloyd-jones/i-wrote-the-jesus-storybook-bible-because-i-wanted-children-to-know/)

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