"There are certain pieces of music that are……" — Maurice Sendak

Related Quotes

• Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction. — E L Doctorow
• All my books are about one major idea and two or three subsidiary ones. I have thought a lot about… — Sebastian Faulks
• Songs are more powerful than books. — Elvis Costello
• Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films. — Terry Pratchett
• We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a… — Ali Smith
• A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul. — Eric Pio
• Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest. — Karin Slaughter
• Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by… — Martin Cruz Smith
• I have specific playlists for different books and characters. So, I need to have those with me. It helps me… — Cassandra Clare
• Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the… — Marcel Proust