Book Quote by Holly Smale Download Open image “Because here's the thing about a book: when you pick up a story, you put down your own.” — Holly Smale ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Inspirational Love Picks Stories
A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the… — Dan DeCarlo Copy Share Image
Because we humans find stories such fascinating things, it’s all too easy to get interested in the story for its own sake, and lose… — Steve Denning Copy Share Image
Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself? — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
“Before one knows it, he's nearly through with the book and then must continue so as to 'find out what happens at the end.' These are the sort of book of which publishers say 'Once you pick it up, you can't put it down,'and one of the major reasons you don't want to put it down is that you don't… — Rust Hills Copy Share
I've long come to the conclusion that when people say they can't put a book down, they don't mean they're interested in what's happening… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you… — Berry Gordy Copy Share Image
Because I'm a woman writing about women who do bad things, that's somehow very 'other.' When men write that, it's called a novel. It's… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
The point of what I do is that it doesn't really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you,… — James Frey Copy Share Image
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“It's 4:40am and i'm standing in the middle of a Quentin Tarantino version of Finding Nemo” — Holly Smale Copy Share Image
“Well?" Nat says after a few seconds. "I'm surprised you're here again, Harriet. I thought you'd be busy auditioning for A Midsummer Night's Dream… — Holly Smale Copy Share Image
“That's the beauty of the summer holidays. It's as if life is just a big Etch-a-Sketch, and once a year you get to shake… — Holly Smale Copy Share Image
“The chances of winning the lottery are approximately one in fourteen million,” — Holly Smale Copy Share Image
That's the thing about love. You can plan it, and schedule it, and map it out. You can tell it how you want it… — Holly Smale Copy Share Image
“Nick? Any idea?" Nick coughs too. "Nope. No idea at all." Wilbur gives him a stern look. "So what was the point in doing… — Holly Smale Copy Share Image
“The orchestral music is glorious but I wish they'd stop playing for a minute: it's very hard to eavesdrop properly over a grand piano… — Holly Smale Copy Share Image
“I didn't need to transform after all. My name is Harriet Manners and I am a geek. And maybe that's not so bad after… — Holly Smale Copy Share Image
“Because these aren't just dresses. They're portals: ways of time-travelling without moving. A little bit of me went into each of them, and it's… — Holly Smale 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
