Recent Posts Tagged With 'quotes'

• That accursed Julia Child

  Posted on Saturday December 26th, 2009 at 23:20 in quotes, writing

  I haven't posted in a while, it's true, but surely you can understand, it being the holidays and all. I've spent the week off from work and puttering around the house (stressing a little about last minute gifts as well) and generally being a lazy goo...

• Quote: Mo Willems

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 12:42 in quotes

  “Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.”—Mo Willems...

• Quote: Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket)

  Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 15:16 in quotes

  As a children's author, I am often accused of being a child at heart, and ... my standard reply [is], "Are you saying that my wife is a pedophile?"— Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket)...

• Quote: Daniel Pinkwater

  Posted on Saturday October 10th, 2009 at 14:49 in quotes

  “Children make better readers than adults. They read as carefully as I write; adults read as a means of getting off to sleep. I get letters saying ‘I have read your book seventeen times.’ If you’re an adult novelist and you get that letter, y...

• A Writer's Mantra

  Posted on Wednesday September 30th, 2009 at 08:27 in quotes

  This courtesy of James A. Owen, author of The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica:A Mantra for when deadlines rise and doubt creeps in“I am the Leviathan of Pop Culture."My stride is mighty, encompassing continents of fiction. My footsteps re...

• Awesome quotes

  Posted on Thursday September 17th, 2009 at 22:00 in quotes

  "Sometimes serendipity plays a far greater role in creativity than brilliance."—Me...