For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.
– Emma Donoghue
Related Quotes:
- Stories are a different kind of true. – Emma Donoghue
- Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
- And tell them all about the books you’ve read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That’s an order. You can never read too many books. – PB Kerr
- Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. – Kira Hawke
- People need stories…we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books. – Jennifer Chiaverini
- The main things are the plain things, and the plain things are the main things. – Alistair Begg
- Simple and plain things can touch your heart very easily! If you can be simple and plain, you can touch every heart! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Everything has been created twice once on a mental plain and once on a physical plain. – Bob Proctor
- People move around so much in the world, things get lost. – Emma Donoghue
- … where there’s one there’s ten.’That’s crazy math. – Emma Donoghue
- Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing. – Emma Donoghue
- And why must it always be presumed that a woman’s views are based on personal considerations? – Emma Donoghue
- Men never feel quite the same about a woman’s body once they know it’s done that thing: widened and torn to push out a baby’s head. – Emma Donoghue
- The crow flew closer, as if to hear its praises. – Emma Donoghue
- The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like. – Emma Donoghue
- Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture’s memory. – Emma Donoghue
- …real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you’ve known something worth missing. – Emma Donoghue
- In the days when wishing was having, I got what I wished and then I wish I hadn’t. – Emma Donoghue
- Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well. – Emma Donoghue
- Nowadays ‘invisibility’ was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself. – Emma Donoghue
- I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn’t add up to an hour. – Emma Donoghue
- You know who you belong to, Jack?--œYeah.--œYourself.-He’s wrong, actually, I belong to Ma. – Emma Donoghue
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- I feel that a book is never written by the writer aloneit’s written by him and everyone around him be it directly or indirectly – Subhasis Das
- Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully. – Bryant McGill
- Possession of wealth is not the happiness but expression of gratitude for the possession is the happiness. – Debasish Mridha
- Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts. – Brian W Aldiss
- A moment passed, perhaps half a second when their faces said what they felt, and then Emma was smiling, laughing, her arms around his neck. – David Nicholls
- Without writers, stories would not be written,Without actors, stories could not be brought to life. – AngieMarie Delsante
- I shrank from the faces and forms by which I was surrounded. They were all fixed faces, full not of possibilities but impossibilities, – CS Lewis
- Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces. – Elyn R Saks
- The explanation has been written already in the three words that were many enough, and plain enough, for my confession. I loved her. – Wilkie Collins
- Society has failed its inhabitants, just as its inhabitants have failed society. – Anthony T Hinkcs
- A failure is not one who has attempted and failed but one who has failed to attempt for fear of failing. – Chinonye J Chidolue
- There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. – Oscar Wilde
- Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. – Oscar Wilde
- And read-¦ read all the time-¦ read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. – David McCullough Jr
- Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults. – Tony Reinke
- Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates. – Christy Hall
- Read books when you are free, read minds when you are’nt….but do read… – Rabindranath Tagore