Holly Black Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Librarians are hot. They have knowledge and power over their domain...It is no coincidence how many librarians are portrayed as having a passionate interior, hidden by a cool layer of reserve. Aren't books like that? On the shelf, their calm covers belie the intense experience of reading one. Reading inflames the soul. Now, what sort of person would be the keeper of such books?

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  Book, Reading, Knowledge And Power

• I remember everyone telling me I had to think positive when I was writing my first book. If I believed I could do it, then I could! If I pictured myself published, then it was going to happen! Which sounded great, except...could I do it? If I didn't think I could, was I doomed to fail? What if I was almost totally sure I would fail? I am here to tell you-what matters is sticking with it.

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  Book, Writing, Thinking

• What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

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  Book, Knows

  Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black (2009). “The Completely Fantastical Edition: The Field Guide; The Seeing Stone; Lucinda's Secret; The Ironwood Tree; The Wrath of Mulgarath”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

• It’s just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he’d forget my water or food and I’d cry and cry and cry.” She stops talking and looks out the window. “I would try to tell myself stories to pass the time. Fairy tales. Parts of books. But they got used up.

  Holly Black

  Crazy, Book, Talking

• A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.

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  Book, Holy Grail, Firsts

• It is my belief that books are living things.

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  Book, Belief, Living Things

  Holly Black (2013). “The Poison Eaters: and Other Stories”, p.150, Small Beer Press

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