Book Quote by Benjamin Percy Download Open image ““The more characters you have, the bigger the book, the more flaming chain saws.”” — Benjamin Percy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bigger Book Book Book Flaming Books Chain Saws Characters Characters Bigger Flaming Chain Writer Writing
“One by one, the villager torches are lit, and a fire spreads through their circle until it blazes like an enormous bullion ring.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If [the characters] grow a lot, they begin to influence the course of the story instead of the other way around.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Every book tells a story, so you better be ready for the adventure.” — Jessica Kinney Copy Share Image
“I get absolutely and undeniably attached to book characters to the point where I cry and laugh with them, and physically miss them when… — Boodfessions #207 Copy Share Image
“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.” — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“The best way to mess with the head of your reader is to strategize the delivery of bad news.” — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
I want to build as many worlds as possible - each a version of ours with a crack running through it - and not… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“So you could write what you know. The problem, of course, is that some people don’t know shit.” — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“When she thinks of the toxins built up inside of her from so many years of eating carelessly, of the resentment that has grown… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“The seagull doesn’t mean anything,” I said. “It’s just a seagull. It’s there for beach ambience.” — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“It’s like this. Terror might make someone kill, but love will make someone die. People die for love. They would give up anything for… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“... he feels the darkness of the grave pressing around the fire and infecting his vision so that there seems to be no separation… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
As in the case of many of the stories that I've written I'm not trying to editorialize. I don't want there to be a… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
I have a scenario but almost always it's entwined with at least one person to begin with. Then I sort of expand from there… — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
“Books are like batteries, he says. And you grow a little stronger by reading them, surrounding yourself with them.” — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image