Books Quote by Greg van Eekhout Download Open image “As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.” — Greg van Eekhout ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Get Much Reader Storytelling Tales Tend Too Too much Unrelenting
The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Sadly, for those who are busy sawing off their feet to escape the trap of cliches, every story is chock full of them and… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of… — Arthur Christiansen Copy Share Image
Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was not of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I am not a storyteller . . . not like the others. I only have one tale to tell. — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
I'm overflowing with stories, delighted and quite mad with the beauty and tragedy of them. — Katharine Susannah Prichard Copy Share Image
“There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Being part of the original 'Star Wars' generation, I have always known a dark future. — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
More than working toward the book's climax, I work toward the denouement. As a reader and a writer, that's where I find the real… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
It's possible I'm a weird person, you know, and if I could only write for people who are like me, I wouldn't have any… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
There's a certain amount of world-building that I hold off on until I need it for the story. World building in advance isn't really… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
“Magic is like pulling the pin on a grenade and then sutffing it down your pants to see what happens.” — Greg Van Eekhout Copy Share Image
I grew up in Los Angeles, and I was always fascinated by the La Brea Tar Pits. Right in the middle of the city,… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
If 'Star Wars' wasn't enough to prepare me for a dark future, there was the 'Planet of the Apes' franchise, conveniently repeated for me… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
Middle grade fiction, to me, is really about emergence of self. It's about expressing the idea that the world is going to start affecting… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
In everything I write, I'm always striving to hit the right mix of light and darkness, humor and pain, fun and seriousness. — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
I feel lucky that my career so far has included books for adults and books for kids. They're equally important to me, and I… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
The stakes in my books tend to be kind of ridiculously high. In 'Kid vs. Squid,' the question is whether or not the California… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
I try to eat vegetarian, though I'm not very good at it, and it's a work in progress. But we basically are what we… — Greg van Eekhout 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
