Book Quote by Chip Kidd Download Open image “A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.” — Chip Kidd ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Haiku Inspirational Stories
“The cover of a book is akin to the door of a home; if it is welcoming and enticing, it beckons you and your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Haiku is a way of culling things from the stream of things that rush past the senses. — Michael J. Rosen Copy Share Image
“Books become my refuge. Reading keeps me hopeful. I fall in love with small poems, the shorter the better- haiku from Japan, and tiny… — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
As someone once said, covers to a novel are like bars to a cage. You can watch the tiger, the Komodo dragon, and admire… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“The Essential Haiku: Versions of Bashō, Buson, & Issa, edited by Robert Hass.” — Michael Wallace Copy Share Image
Don't just a book by it's cover. You never know what you'll find underneath if you just give it a try. — Tiana Webb Copy Share Image
What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Be careful not to judge a book by its cover. What you think the story is and what it really reads, could be two… — Sarah Moores Copy Share Image
Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond,… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness -… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
“On the first day of class, the Visual Arts building reclined before me like an old brick whore, egging me to show her one,… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
Hey, have you heard that one about the difference between me, Wit, and my loutish cousin, Hilarity? No? Okay, so I walk into a… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
“(...) photography opened up quite a little Pandora's box, kiddies. (...) Once we no longer had to depend on drawing and painting to record… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas. — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
What people really want, no matter who they are, is someone to listen to them. ... people have a lot on their minds, however… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
“We are the Western World. We read, see, think. Left. To. Right. We can't help it. ..The problem with Top to Bottom is that… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
“Graphic Design for its own sake will never happen, because the concept cancels itself out — a poster about nothing other than itself is… — Chip Kidd 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
