Steve Smy > Steve's Quotes

“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake

“It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.”
― Lois Lowry

“It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“A genius is a lunatic who made it!”
― Steve Smy

“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

“An author is like a jeweller, with words as their gemstones and imagination the precious metals.”
― Steve Smy

“Bookworms aren't people who love to read. They are people who treat books as treasures. Anonymous”
― Bette A. Stevens, Amazing Matilda: A Monarch's Tale

“Books are like magic carpets, taking us to places real and imaginary that we never thought possible.”
― Bette A Stevens

“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers

“If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books.
The book needs you.”
― Gary Paulsen, The Winter Room

“And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.”
― Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.”
― Ogden Nash