“I think it's the sentence-to-sentence pleasures, the little surprises of a surprising style of an acute style, and also the way things happen one after the other, that makes a book interesting to read page to page” ThinkingWayLittlesBookHappensPleasureInterestingStylePagesSurpriseSentencesThings HappenSurprising Book:Conversations with John Updike Source: Conversations with John Updike
“Two things happened. The creative side of my career was harmed. When I'd sit down and write under the influence of coke, the ratio of pages kept to pages thrown out declined drastically. But onstage, when rapping about a feeling I already owned, I would sometimes get a burst of eloquence.” WritingTwoSometimesFeelingsSidesCareersCreativeHappenedInfluencePagesDown AndRapThings HappenTwo ThingsThrownEloquenceCokeRatios Author:George Carlin
“If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.” IfsMindFirstsSaidBookHappensReadingMemoriesForeverSawsJourneyPagesSightBoxesThings HappenIceOddNovelistsReading BooksCreamIce CreamPrintedCollectingOdd ThingsInkheart Book:Inkheart Source: Inkheart
“Things happen they way they're meant to. There's a pattern and a shape to everything...Nothing happens without a reason...Nothing is impossible...(Page 180).” WayReasonHappensImpossibleShapesPagesPatternsThings HappenNothing Is Impossible Author:Rosamunde Pilcher
“When a book is read an irrevocable thing happens — a murder, followed by an imposture. The story in the mind murders the story on the page, and takes its place.” MindBookStoriesHappensPagesMurderThings HappenIrrevocable Author:Mike Carey