Book Quote by Joel Stein Download Open image “You can get away with stuff in a one-page story that you can't get away with in a book.” — Joel Stein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Get away Pages Stories Stuff
Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book. — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
If you know everything, it keeps you from writing. You don't want a story to burn you out instead of surprising you. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I'm like the book which almost everyone seems to skim through the pages but never reads the whole story. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A good book is like an unreachable itch. You just can't leave it alone. — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
You can't take a story and just stretch it out - that does not a novel make. — David Means Copy Share Image
I don't like getting stuck into someone's definition of what you can or can't do with a story. — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
There's a great temptation to throw things in, as you put it, that you think are neat, or that you have a very clear,… — Rebecca Stead 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
Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read. — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
I want to be heavily tied to a city that I write for every week, that knows my stuff and I can interact with. — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
I never thought to look at the New York Times one, even though I knew people were pissed off. I've seen YouTube videos from… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
When wine drinkers tell me they taste notes of cherries, tobacco and rose petals, usually all I can detect is a whole lot of… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
When Time got rid of my column, I thought it was all over. It was really sad. And then, I just started pushing it… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
I have some idea that if I pick on [boy band] One Direction, I'll get a ton of hate mail, because I know that… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
I don't read "letters" sections of magazines, but I'll read anyone's blog post about me. — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do. — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
I can't imagine what someone would write that would infuriate me. Maybe if my loved one had died of some disease and someone was… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
People would ask if I wanted to host things and I was like, "No, I'm a writer, I don't host things." Just thinking I… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
I don't like to be in the forest. It's a weird thing. I've learned to have a general appreciation for nature, which has taken… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
Early on, even in college, I figured out that it was just more interesting to me to create content than to write about other… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
I think I realized that Dave Barry was funnier than I'll ever be, and he made no attempt to make any actual points. He… — Joel Stein 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
![“I have some idea that if I pick on [boy band] One Direction, I'll get a ton of hate mail, because I know that when you're 15, you love a band like you will kill people. But I don't quite realize that that's true about people - adults - who read The Hunger Games.” quote by Joel Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ffd/joel-stein-12345_adults_i-have-some-idea-that-if-i-pick-on-boy-b_316616.jpg)
