Books Quote by Chris d'Lacey Download Open image “If I had a bowler hat, I'd take it off to the author of this beautifully crafted steampunk novel.” — Chris d'Lacey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Bowler hats Bowlers Hats Ifs Novel Steampunk
Two things a novelist can do with a hat: Talk through it or pull a rabbit from it. — Peter S. Prescott Copy Share Image
I'd like to get a chance to wear two different hats in the business. I also think it would be really great to do… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, "I will tell you a… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
There is a certain degree of 'steampunkishness' that creeps into my books. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I used to think that I wanted to be a hat maker, but I don't think that would have worked out. — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
Cracking the Ice scores the literary equivalent of a hat-trick: funny, harrowing and finally, heartfelt. This book is a winner. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hat-making is laborious and time-consuming. It's a very tactile medium, and you can develop the skills, but it's one of those things: you either… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
“There are some things one is born to wear, and I had obviously been fated to wear this hat.” — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
“With my rags I ought to wear a cap, any sort of old pancake, but not this grotesque thing. Nobody wears such a hat,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
There is a sign in the heavens Another light in the darkness A better time is beginning There is a fire star coming I… — Chris d'Lacey Copy Share Image
“He tried. He really did. For a good ninety seconds he molded the clay as best he could. His final effort came out resembling… — Chris d'Lacey Copy Share Image
“People joked that Zanna had only come to Scrubbley because she’d missed the train to Hogwarts. What” — Chris d'Lacey Copy Share Image
“Why can't I talk to her?" "Because you're not a handsome young man." "Well, neither is he!” — Chris d'Lacey Copy Share Image
“Whoa, the baby Jesus lives in Chamberlain?” “In an igloo next to the inn. Try again.” “Um,” — Chris d'Lacey Copy Share Image
And it was there that I saw the most appealing creature in the whole shop. He had a slight chink out of one foot… — Chris d'Lacey Copy Share Image
The more we nurture the planet, the better and more natural a life we'll have. — Chris d'Lacey Copy Share Image
I'm under strict instructions to write a happy ending. Rule number ninety-seven: You're not allowed to make a dragon cry." "Right," Said Sophie, starting… — Chris d'Lacey Copy Share Image
What you take from the earth, you must give back. That's nature's way. — Chris d'Lacey 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
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker 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
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb 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