David Walliams
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BYATT There's a difference between children's literature and all-ages literature. One is written e... RYAN NORTH If something's not right, I don't believe in maintaining something for the sake of what'... KATE HUDSON A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they sho... EWAN MCGREGOR My mother is an actress, and my aunt Margaux was a model. And it's funny, as much as I'm all... DREE HEMINGWAY RICK RIORDAN ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people... ROALD DAHL RICHARD DAWKINS RICHARD K. MORGAN I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, ... QUENTIN BLAKE LINDSAY LOHAN MAURICE SENDAK STEVE CARELL I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pict... MARGARET WISE BROWN A. A. MILNE JAMAICA KINCAID In South Africa, where HIV-positive children are often shunned, we have an HIV-positive Muppet to te... JOAN GANZ COONEY KATE FORSYTH LEE HANEY I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for childre... JEWEL AL SHARPTON I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's ... AMY WALDMAN DAVID BERGEN MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I'm not the most talented writer in the world. I know that. But I also know that I'm discipl... DAVID B. COE As the idealized mother, I might choose Irene Dunne as the mother in 'I Remember Mama' who s... RICHARD CORLISS GAIL CARSON LEVINE FRANCESCA ANNIS LINDSAY LOHAN Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding any... WALLACE SHAWN CHELSEA CLINTON ERICA JONG BETTY WHITE I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves. MAYA RUDOLPH A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherent... HEATHER O'NEILL KATHI APPELT HELEN MCCRORY Pregnancy is barbaric. … The husband's guilty waning of sexual desire, the woman's tears in fr... THE CHILDREN I beheld the trappings of upper-middle-class comfort. The big-screen TV and VCR. The crush of name-b... THE CHILDREN I believe children's blessings are very powerful. MAHESH BABU PHIL MCGRAW I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that soun... EMMANUELLE BEART I'm interested in illustration in all its forms. Not only in books for children but in posters, ... CHRIS RIDDELL I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration b... MICHAEL FOREMAN Children will be children, and they're inquisitive. If teenagers want to know what's out the... KEELEY HAWES VIDYA BALAN LARA ST. JOHN RINGO STARR ORSON SCOTT CARD Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers. JOHN BOYNE As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without real... ANTHONY BROWNE Whereas Books of Wonder excels with children's literature, McNally Jackson is where I go for my ... ADAM SILVERA The swashbuckling independence of my childhood was not all good, and as a father, I'm puzzling o... JOHN DICKERSON MAGGIE Q As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving ... P. J. O'ROURKE I'm on the advisory board of Alex's Lemonade Stand, which is a children's cancer charity... KIRSTEN VANGSNESS BONNIE BEDELIA I just don't see myself as retiring. As long as I'm healthy and can play the drums, that'... BILL KREUTZMANN I'm thought of as a celebrity. Everything I've ever done... has been for children. As long a... JACK WILD Because we are human we have a long childhood, and one of the jobs of that childhood is to sculpt ou... E.L. KONIGSBURG KRISTEN STEWART If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don’t ... JEFF HUTCHINS Generally speaking, all true children's stories make promises to their readers. Here you are, they s... JOHN GOLDTHWAITE I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth. E.L. KONIGSBURG The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life... ALISON LURIE Oh, yes," nodded Pollyanna, emphatically. He [her father] said he felt better right away, that first... ELEANOR H. PORTER In a New York Post interview, Judy Blume, author of young-adult fiction, gave this advice on getting... JUDY BLUME But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.... MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS It's something I've noticed with my two children - children frequently know and don't kn... LENNY ABRAHAMSON I'm going to take over on the Techno Comics so I'm going to be dealing in the children's... MAJEL BARRETT I wouldn't call myself religious. I'm spiritual. Everybody's a bit more so as you get ol... GARRY HYNES ELTON JOHN VICTORIA BECKHAM JUDY GOLD ALICE WALKER I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, ... LAURIE NOTARO In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childho... MARGARET WISE BROWN I think it's so important for a woman, if she's a writer, to look as feminine as possible. CATHERINE GASKIN MARIA MONTESSORI
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