You cannot writ for children... They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them. ~ Maurice Sendak
"I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book."
Groucho Marx
Ever since I was first read to, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't hear. As my eyes followed the sentence, a voice was saying it silently to me. It isn't my mother's voice, or the voice of any person I can identify, certainly not my own. It is human, but inward, and it is inwardly that I listen to it. It is to me the voice of the story or the poem itself. - Eudora Welty
In literature as in love we are astounded by what is chosen by others. - Andre Maurois (via Meditations for Mothers of Toddlers)
"What we should do and what we do are often very different," Adah put in.~ From The Secret (Seasons of Grace, Book One) by Beverly Lewis
Rest in Peace Mr. Dunne. Our Prayers are with your family, friends and fans
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Books will bring you happiness every day of your life. - James Patterson
Read because you love to, not because you have to - James Pattterson (via 12/16/2007 Parade)
Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children. - Oliver Wendell
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way..." - Robert Frost
Expect nothing Live frugally on surprise. - Alice Walker
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no remedy for love but to love more - Henry David Thoreau
I recently picked up a book (Ocenas Apart) by Karen Kingsbury from the library. This will be the first book I've read by her so I thought I would look online and find out more about her. I came across this clip:
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. - Alice Walker