Book Quote by Danielle Steel Download Open image “A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.” — Danielle Steel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Care Character I care Situation
A novel usually begins, in my experience, with a thought or image that won't leave me alone. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
An image often propels the novel, gets it started. For me, it's an image that has a lot of emotion connected to it. — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
“The books we read help to shape who we are. Reading offers us, as children, our first independence- allowing us to travel far beyond… — Ben Jacobs Copy Share Image
I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
My books, I will say one thing - they all have a driving narrative, and you have to turn the pages, and the way… — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
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… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care. — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
When we want a book exactly like the one we just finished reading, what we really want is to recreate that pleasurable experience--the headlong… — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific imagesthings that have come into… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Picture books are an emotional medium. They need to make us feel something. — Marla Frazee Copy Share Image
People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous. — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry. — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy. — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
I'm surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes. — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do — Danielle Steel 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
