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Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to w...
ALEX FLINN![]()
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON![]()
This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lo...
ANNE LAMOTT The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental su...
DAVID GROSS![]()
I write books to change the world. Perhaps I can only change one little piece of that world. But if ...
JONATHAN KOZOL I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.
BERKELEY BREATHED Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist...
BERKELEY BREATHED I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.
BERKELEY BREATHED I happen to think nearly everybody - especially those one might find in the odd issue of 'People...
BERKELEY BREATHED The comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.
BERKELEY BREATHED 'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns...
BERKELEY BREATHED That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is ...
BERKELEY BREATHED And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple,...
BERKELEY BREATHED I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly,...
BERKELEY BREATHED If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.
BERKELEY BREATHED If I could have drawn a cat yelling for lasagna every day for 15 years and have them pay me $30 mill...
BERKELEY BREATHED Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
BERKELEY BREATHED Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill ...
BERKELEY BREATHED I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer hav...
BERKELEY BREATHED Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear w...
BERKELEY BREATHED I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to beco...
BERKELEY BREATHED I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with ...
BERKELEY BREATHED Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
BERKELEY BREATHED I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I would...
BERKELEY BREATHED I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.
BERKELEY BREATHED Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our live...
BERKELEY BREATHED I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Th...
BERKELEY BREATHED Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.
BERKELEY BREATHED It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
BERKELEY BREATHED I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to beco...
BERKELEY BREATHED As an art form, comics are threatened by legacy strips. The fact that papers are running [legacy str...
BERKELEY BREATHED I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
BERKELEY BREATHED I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit o...
BERKELEY BREATHED Neither knew it at the time, but a line had been crossed that could not be uncrossed- a running leap...
BERKELEY BREATHED I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of diffe...
CATHERINE JINKS![]()
Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This ...
HARALD ZUR HAUSEN![]()
I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a chi...
GEORGE KONRAD![]()
Let us pick up our books and our pens,” I said. “They are our most powerful weapons. One child, ...
MALALA YOUSAFZAI![]()
I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and th...
DENZEL WASHINGTON The life cycle of toys gets shorter and shorter as kids' attention spans get shorter and shorter.
PETER CARUSO![]()
I vowed to myself that when I grew up and became a theoretical physicist, in addition to doing resea...
MICHIO KAKU![]()
As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all ...
ERMA BOMBECK![]()
As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all...
ERMA BOMBECK I write entertainment. There are some books you read but don't inhale. There are books that will...
MICHAEL ROBOTHAM![]()
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
BLAISE PASCAL![]()
My books are just pure escapism for kids.
DAV PILKEY Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just pu...
JACK GANTOS![]()
When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
A. S. BYATT![]()
Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to w...
KAZUO ISHIGURO![]()
I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I...
WAVY GRAVY![]()
My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use m...
JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA![]()
You complain, Velox, that the epigrams which I write are long.
You yourself write nothing; your at...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
BEVERLY CLEARY![]()
I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was a...
ANN HOOD![]()
Cherish your existence, for memories become legacies and life can change in an instant.
ROSS CALIGIURI I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
TASLIMA NASRIN I loved every minute of my three years majoring in classics at Berkeley.
CAROLINE LAWRENCE I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started to cha...
CHARLES KING![]()
I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign corr...
ALAN FURST![]()
My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 ye...
TERRY PRATCHETT![]()
Kids are always writing me: 'I had a bad day too.' 'I got gum in my hair.' And the k...
JUDITH VIORST![]()
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o...
ANATOLE FRANCE![]()
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o...
ANATOLE FRANCE I write books, bitch!
JUNNITA JACKSON As a child, I read because books–violent and not, blasphemous and not, terrifying and not–were t...
SHERMAN ALEXIE![]()
I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.
ANGELA CARTER![]()
There is a quiet place in Hawaii where, for over thirty years, I've gone to draw inspiration and...
ROBERT H. SCHULLER![]()
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
BERNARD WILLIAMS Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
BERT WILLIAMS![]()
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
BERN WILLIAMS Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
BERT WILLIAMS![]()
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o...
ANATOLE FRANCE![]()
I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonde...
C. JOYBELL C. I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean'...
DANA SPIOTTA I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive, and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of...
ADAM RAPP![]()
I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my prev...
SANTOSH KALWAR![]()
My impressions of the Russian Revolution can be divided into two periods. The first period was when ...
CHIANG KAI-SHEK I write in the morning - and then I'm always experimenting and tasting recipes for the books.
DIANE MOTT DAVIDSON![]()
Did we come all the way here for a book, Baba?”
“Just one, my child. Just one.”
“I...
RENEE AHDIEH I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
FAITH EVANS![]()
I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
SALMAN RUSHDIE![]()
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.
MARY ELLEN CHASE![]()
I can only write a book like 'The Tin Drum' or 'From the Diary of a Snail' at a spec...
GUNTER GRASS I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration b...
MICHAEL FOREMAN My favourite books are Charles Bukowski's 'Post Office' and 'Women.'
ALEX PETTYFER![]()
One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.
MALALA YOUSAFZAI It comes a point in which you don't know if you write books or the books write you
ROBIN SACREDFIRE I was, without a sliver of a doubt, a no-good, lazy slacker of a child, and after I discovered liter...
BEN PEEK I could spend the rest of my life writing and drawing books for kids and be a very happy man.
DANIEL SEAN KAYE When you realize my best selling books are 'Owl Moon,' the 'How Do Dinosaur' books, ...
JANE YOLEN![]()
People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people withou...
BRIAN TRACY![]()
Naming my favorite books feels like naming a favorite child - impossible.
LIBBA BRAY If people could write as much as they write on Facebook in one day, they could write books and be pu...
VALERIE ROSE STERRETT Raising kids these days is hard. I'm the second to last child in my family. I think it's tou...
GORE VERBINSKI The early readers are in-between books for the kids who aren't ready for novels yet but are done...
GRACE LIN![]()
I took my kids everywhere. I didn't have money for child care, so I took them to college with me...
IYANLA VANZANT![]()
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
BLACK ELK I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never hav...
JON SCIESZKA I guess I wasn't ready to play in the first period, ... I felt pretty good and normal, but I was jus...
JUSSI MARKKANEN![]()
Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
ALEX FLINN
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lo... ANNE LAMOTT The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental su...
DAVID GROSS
I write books to change the world. Perhaps I can only change one little piece of that world. But if ... JONATHAN KOZOL I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.
BERKELEY BREATHED Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist...
BERKELEY BREATHED I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.
BERKELEY BREATHED I happen to think nearly everybody - especially those one might find in the odd issue of 'People...
BERKELEY BREATHED The comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.
BERKELEY BREATHED 'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns...
BERKELEY BREATHED That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is ...
BERKELEY BREATHED And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple,...
BERKELEY BREATHED I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly,...
BERKELEY BREATHED If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.
BERKELEY BREATHED If I could have drawn a cat yelling for lasagna every day for 15 years and have them pay me $30 mill...
BERKELEY BREATHED Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
BERKELEY BREATHED Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill ...
BERKELEY BREATHED I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer hav...
BERKELEY BREATHED Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear w...
BERKELEY BREATHED I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to beco...
BERKELEY BREATHED I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with ...
BERKELEY BREATHED Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
BERKELEY BREATHED I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I would...
BERKELEY BREATHED I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.
BERKELEY BREATHED Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our live...
BERKELEY BREATHED I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Th...
BERKELEY BREATHED Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.
BERKELEY BREATHED It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
BERKELEY BREATHED I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to beco...
BERKELEY BREATHED As an art form, comics are threatened by legacy strips. The fact that papers are running [legacy str...
BERKELEY BREATHED I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
BERKELEY BREATHED I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit o...
BERKELEY BREATHED Neither knew it at the time, but a line had been crossed that could not be uncrossed- a running leap...
BERKELEY BREATHED I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of diffe...
CATHERINE JINKS
Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This ... HARALD ZUR HAUSEN
I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a chi... GEORGE KONRAD
Let us pick up our books and our pens,” I said. “They are our most powerful weapons. One child, ... MALALA YOUSAFZAI
I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and th... DENZEL WASHINGTON The life cycle of toys gets shorter and shorter as kids' attention spans get shorter and shorter.
PETER CARUSO
I vowed to myself that when I grew up and became a theoretical physicist, in addition to doing resea... MICHIO KAKU
As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all ... ERMA BOMBECK
As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all... ERMA BOMBECK I write entertainment. There are some books you read but don't inhale. There are books that will...
MICHAEL ROBOTHAM
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter. BLAISE PASCAL
My books are just pure escapism for kids. DAV PILKEY Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just pu...
JACK GANTOS
When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life. A. S. BYATT
Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to w... KAZUO ISHIGURO
I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I... WAVY GRAVY
My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use m... JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA
You complain, Velox, that the epigrams which I write are long.
You yourself write nothing; your at... MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
BEVERLY CLEARY
I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was a... ANN HOOD
Cherish your existence, for memories become legacies and life can change in an instant. ROSS CALIGIURI I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
TASLIMA NASRIN I loved every minute of my three years majoring in classics at Berkeley.
CAROLINE LAWRENCE I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started to cha...
CHARLES KING
I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign corr... ALAN FURST
My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 ye... TERRY PRATCHETT
Kids are always writing me: 'I had a bad day too.' 'I got gum in my hair.' And the k... JUDITH VIORST
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o... ANATOLE FRANCE
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o... ANATOLE FRANCE I write books, bitch!
JUNNITA JACKSON As a child, I read because books–violent and not, blasphemous and not, terrifying and not–were t...
SHERMAN ALEXIE
I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous. ANGELA CARTER
There is a quiet place in Hawaii where, for over thirty years, I've gone to draw inspiration and... ROBERT H. SCHULLER
Books had instant replay long before televised sports. BERNARD WILLIAMS Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
BERT WILLIAMS
Books had instant replay long before televised sports. BERN WILLIAMS Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
BERT WILLIAMS
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o... ANATOLE FRANCE
I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonde... C. JOYBELL C. I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean'...
DANA SPIOTTA I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive, and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of...
ADAM RAPP
I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my prev... SANTOSH KALWAR
My impressions of the Russian Revolution can be divided into two periods. The first period was when ... CHIANG KAI-SHEK I write in the morning - and then I'm always experimenting and tasting recipes for the books.
DIANE MOTT DAVIDSON
Did we come all the way here for a book, Baba?”“Just one, my child. Just one.”
“I...
RENEE AHDIEH I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
FAITH EVANS
I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder. SALMAN RUSHDIE
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. MARY ELLEN CHASE
I can only write a book like 'The Tin Drum' or 'From the Diary of a Snail' at a spec... GUNTER GRASS I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration b...
MICHAEL FOREMAN My favourite books are Charles Bukowski's 'Post Office' and 'Women.'
ALEX PETTYFER
One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world. MALALA YOUSAFZAI It comes a point in which you don't know if you write books or the books write you
ROBIN SACREDFIRE I was, without a sliver of a doubt, a no-good, lazy slacker of a child, and after I discovered liter...
BEN PEEK I could spend the rest of my life writing and drawing books for kids and be a very happy man.
DANIEL SEAN KAYE When you realize my best selling books are 'Owl Moon,' the 'How Do Dinosaur' books, ...
JANE YOLEN
People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people withou... BRIAN TRACY
Naming my favorite books feels like naming a favorite child - impossible. LIBBA BRAY If people could write as much as they write on Facebook in one day, they could write books and be pu...
VALERIE ROSE STERRETT Raising kids these days is hard. I'm the second to last child in my family. I think it's tou...
GORE VERBINSKI The early readers are in-between books for the kids who aren't ready for novels yet but are done...
GRACE LIN
I took my kids everywhere. I didn't have money for child care, so I took them to college with me... IYANLA VANZANT
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning. BLACK ELK I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never hav...
JON SCIESZKA I guess I wasn't ready to play in the first period, ... I felt pretty good and normal, but I was jus...
JUSSI MARKKANEN
Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite... SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't ... 
The comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it. 
I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't ... 
The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men
have got into the round holes, and t... 
As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. 
Westward the course of empire takes its way;
The four first Acts already past,
A fifth shall c... 