Books Quote by Shannon Hale Download Open image “I know they are naught things, but I devour novels.” (p. 57).” — Shannon Hale ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Novel
Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not… — Victoria Connelly Copy Share Image
“You know how dey say some people “devour” books? Not in da way ME do! Me REALLY devour books!” — Mike Pantuso Copy Share Image
There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them. — Richard Harris Copy Share Image
“Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“And please, stay away from those books you devour. They are putting the most fantastical tales into your head.” — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“...novels do not begin the way you want them to, but the way they want to.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“The ugly fact is books are made out of books, the novel depends for its life on the novels that have been written.” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Well, write me into the list of Those Who Don’t Mind a Bit,” said Cupid, eyeing his perfectly toned arms and chest. “My, but… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Enna leaned back her head and laughed at the sky. 'Of course he wasn't! Who could kill Razo? — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“Um… I guess that’s that,” said Cerise. “That?” said Maddie. “That is never that. This is that. Or else that is this. And this… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first page and… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Geric," she called. He turned back around. "What kind of flowers were they?" "I don't rightly know," he said. He made faltering gestures with… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery rhyme." "Bizarre… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“He wildly combed his hair with his fingers. “I can’t bear to be out there with you right now, all those indifferent people watching… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page? — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
The snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts. — Shannon Hale 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
