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Related GARTH NIX KATHERINE PATERSON RICK RIORDAN LEE UNKRICH I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pict... MARGARET WISE BROWN GEORGE CARLIN 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 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 Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory. WAYNE GRADY ASTRID LINDGREN In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childho... MARGARET WISE BROWN Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as dem... DAVID WALLIAMS OSCAR WILDE OSCAR WILDE I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids ... BEVERLY CLEARY OSCAR WILDE The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because ... JACK ZIPES A.A. MILNE ERMA BOMBECK MARLO THOMAS J.K. ROWLING SONYA HARTNETT None of the seven is really good, for the excellent reason that Australian children never are. ETHEL TURNER People didn't make life, so they can't destroy it. Even if we were to wipe out every bit of life in ... JEANNE DUPRAU ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN The smaller girl hid her eyes with her hands, and Ewan smiled. Did she think that would make her inv... C.J. MILBRANDT CHRISTINE PELOSI KIMORA LEE SIMMONS RAM SHRIRAM Would you like some more pancakes?" Annie asked. I could tell that Annie was a smart girl. I hate to... MARJORIE WEINMAN SHARMAT There will be no 'Mommie Dearest' in the lives of my children, and no books like the one the... DON AMECHE DAVID LODGE In the great green room, there was a telephoneMARGARET WISE BROWN DAVID LODGE DAVID LODGE ELLEN BARKIN Because we are human we have a long childhood, and one of the jobs of that childhood is to sculpt ou... E.L. KONIGSBURG There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's... DENISE MINA POLLY TOYNBEE MICHAEL MORPURGO If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don’t ... JEFF HUTCHINS GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I always try to treat the book itself as the artwork. I don't want you to stop while you're reading ... CHRIS RASCHKA DAMIEN HIRST Whereas Books of Wonder excels with children's literature, McNally Jackson is where I go for my ... ADAM SILVERA PHIL MCGRAW Have a little faith in your sons. This journey will be the making of them. C.J. MILBRANDT There is a difference between talking to your kids and sniffing your kids. LEE TIEN The attitude that poetry should not be analyzed is prevalent among many who consider themselves expe... X. J. KENNEDY Samuel Marshak was one of the founders of modern Russian children's literature. Soviet children ... MICHAEL PATRICK HEARN COLUM MCCANN Kat held her head high as she met the King's eye.J.Z. BINGHAM New Orleans is a rather poor city. There is so much talent in the kids but not many ways for them to... JULIE CONDY Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe a... HEATHER O'NEILL MICHAEL ENDE I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for childre... JEWEL I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossib... ROALD DAHL BOB RILEY GREG GRAFFIN TERRI WINDLING J.M. BARRIE Only sweet people with good virtues can go to fairyland. Those who treat others meanly and without r... JANAKI SOORIYARACHCHI JOHN STEINBECK Lots of children I know are excited to grow up. So I wonder why this man was so happy to become youn... SARA RICH TAVI GEVINSON ALEKSANDAR HEMON Beloved are Israel, for they were called children of God; still greater was the love in that it was ... AKIVA BEN JOSEPH George Bush is not stupid. He's evil. OK? There's a huge difference between stupid and evil. PATTON OSWALT Let your boys test their wings. They may not be eagles, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't soar fr... C.J. MILBRANDT Once upon a time, all children were homeschooled. They were not sent away from home each day to a pl... RACHEL GATHERCOLE LEONARD BOSWELL SCOTT DERRICKSON BILLY GRAHAM LAKE BELL I think so much of young adult literature sort of gets ghettoized - the title 'young adult' ... ALEXI ZENTNER MAURICE SENDAK MAGGIE Q MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN MARINE LE PEN ABHIJIT NASKAR THOMAS FRIEDMAN NASH GRIER ADRIANA TRIGIANI NATALIE MERCHANT One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel... ANNIE BRYANT AMY CHUA ELLEN GLASGOW There's a difference between expanding someone's potential and expanding their actual perfor... DANNEL MALLOY MAGGIE SMITH ALEX KAPRANOS A mother's got to be there to raise the children. That's all there is to it. I feel badly fo... ERIC BRAEDEN JEAN-CLAUDE ADZALLA JEAN-CLAUDE ADZALLA FRANK IERO What's the difference between sex and love? I have four wives and five kids. I apparently don... JAMES CAAN
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I've said this before, but I think one of the reason so many of the cartoonists I know have beco... RYAN NORTH I am a big proponent of the pal-centric lifestyle. RYAN NORTH Social media has been a great change. It's also a great way to disseminate comics and market the... RYAN NORTH The first mp3 I downloaded, which I guess was illegal, was a symphonic rendering of the Super Mario ... RYAN NORTH The funny thing with Ophelia is that I remembered her being this really cool, awesome female charact... RYAN NORTH The fun thing about writing a book with multiple paths and multiple endings is you really get to exp... RYAN NORTH I've always found it funny when people call 'Romeo and Juliet' 'the greatest love st... RYAN NORTH I actually put Jubilee in 'Squirrel Girl.' I made it a priority. RYAN NORTH It's like jazz: You learn the rules to break them - as long as you can break them in a meaningfu... RYAN NORTH Squirrel Girl is basically a Silver Age character in the modern age, and that makes her a fish out o... RYAN NORTH My first book, 'To Be or Not To Be,' took 'Hamlet' and converted it to the choose-yo... RYAN NORTH It's good to have hobbies. RYAN NORTH The nice thing about Squirrel Girl is that she's smart, and she looks for situations that don... RYAN NORTH I used to worry that I had a finite supply of ideas, that I should hold on to each of them in case i... RYAN NORTH It's hard to get motivated fixing a compile-time syntax error when you can buy a powder that turns a... RYAN NORTH There's only one Squirrel Girl! RYAN NORTH Wait... maybe the question isn't "How do I beat him?" Maybe the question in "Dude, why are we even f... RYAN NORTH Wait... maybe the question isn't "How do I beat him?" Maybe the question is "Dude, why are we even f... RYAN NORTH Our family life was certainly not intellectual. DOUGLASS NORTH The really best acting is children in a playground or in a backyard. They're just lost in their ... NOLAN NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion. GARY NORTH Jesus Christ is our supreme commander, but He operates only through His word, which is unquestionabl... GARY NORTH Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid fo... GARY NORTH Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades. GARY NORTH OLIVER NORTH The Question to be considered is, Whether the Government have reason by a Law, to prohibit the takin... DUDLEY NORTH Today it's not culture; it's box office. ALEX NORTH There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music. ALEX NORTH There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved. ALEX NORTH The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the... ALEX NORTH My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan. ALEX NORTH I prefer to write music for family films. I like people. ALEX NORTH I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of ... ALEX NORTH Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commer... ALEX NORTH Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impos... ALEX NORTH Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero. ALEX NORTH OLIVER NORTH Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law... GARY NORTH Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to... LORD NORTH Because Naughty Dog relies on their facial team to hand animate the faces of each game character and... NOLAN NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH I studied journalism at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. I did my graduate work at Em... NOLAN NORTH I don't think it makes any difference. ANDY NORTH I wouldn't say either of us hit the ball fabulously, but we hit some good shots when we needed to. T... ANDY NORTH Post offices are pretty much in every neighborhood and generally much closer than a UPS depot. ANDY NORTH Go out and do what he did. ANDY NORTH We have had a long-standing relationship with UPS. That's not going to change. ANDY NORTH My main goal has always been [to teach you something about] what I do, ANDY NORTH My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dis... DOUGLASS NORTH I am a person who believes in the good of people and who may have had things influence them to a cer... NOLAN NORTH I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted... FREYA NORTH Tell me that you refuse to allow me to be so stupid. Tell me that you will not tolerate this relatio... FREYA NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH When we did the first 'Uncharted,' we weren't able to capture the audio with the perform... NOLAN NORTH I'm proud of the versatility I've had since I was in high school, getting in trouble for all... NOLAN NORTH OLIVER NORTH I revel in my anonymity. But when I'm at a specific event and gamers are there, they'll reco... NOLAN NORTH OLIVER NORTH Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. ... GARY NORTH I don't think there's room in video games for people to bring an ego. It's very frustrat... NOLAN NORTH I've always had a penchant for dialects. I remember getting detention and being told, 'Have ... NOLAN NORTH Laws were made to be broken. CHRISTOPHER NORTH While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in... DOUGLASS NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH But is it a mania? This week, I spoke with a friend who bought a 2,000 square foot house in Orange C... GARY NORTH It just shows that he's sort of out of contact with reality; his thinking is unrealistic, which rais... CHRISTOPHER NORTH Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more co... ALEX NORTH In 'Uncharted,' we do the scenes the same way you would do a film or television show. The mo... NOLAN NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the p... DOUGLASS NORTH OLIVER NORTH Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force. LORD NORTH The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied ... DOUGLASS NORTH Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history? GARY NORTH This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians. GARY NORTH I can envision the finished painting before I start. I read occasionally about an artist who says I ... WILLIAM NORTH She liked him. She liked the feeling of liking him. She felt light and smiley and too full of excite... FREYA NORTH I've found a lot of the thinking in America is that a lot of people become actors to become famo... NOLAN NORTH The question eventually must be raised: Is it a criminal offense to take the name of the Lord in vai... GARY NORTH So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for ... GARY NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH If you are to give him the whole of Great Britain and Ireland for an estate, he would ask the Isle o... LORD NORTH Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades GARY NORTH It's when a fruit is growing on a tree and a twig or leaf brushes against the fruit as it's maturing... WILLIAM NORTH But the rejections got nicer as I went along. And I let a lot of people read it - not just relatives... DARDEN NORTH OLIVER NORTH This condition that exists in our harbors is not just a maritime industry problem, it's a problem fo... GARY NORTH Renoir was one of the primary people that started the impressionist movement. He roomed with Monet. WILLIAM NORTH I'm an outdoor painter painting from life. All of my paintings are oil paintings. They are character... WILLIAM NORTH I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school. DOUGLASS NORTH Basically he's been a terror in the community and a pussycat in custody, CHRISTOPHER NORTH I think he has serious difficulty controlling it, CHRISTOPHER NORTH I eventually became an actor, starting with doing stand-up comedy in New York and then theater where... NOLAN NORTH It's not a persons mistakes which define them - it's the way they make amends. FREYA NORTH I've never walked around on the runway in my underwear before. CHANDRA NORTH OLIVER NORTH There was a time when all the actors were saying, 'We should get residuals on videogames.' I... NOLAN NORTH I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the s... NOLAN NORTH None of these people will be put out on the street. DON NORTH The facilities were strictly interim. DON NORTH The fire is north, south and west. DON NORTH It would be much worse for FEMA to be short of ice than to have too much. It's unfair for us to be c... DON NORTH There were some pretty solid plans and papers drawn up to establish a democratic media. Once we got ... DON NORTH OLIVER NORTH The secret to being unafraid of the darkness is to challenge the darkness to fear you, to raise your... CLAIRE NORTH The trick with a truly successful intimidation is not to rely on volume or obscenity, but to cultiva... CLAIRE NORTH We don’t have to relive the sad and bad memories of Christmas Past. We can create new Christmas me... TOM NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH My first motion capture game was with Sony - 'NBA: The Life.' It was very ahead of its time.... NOLAN NORTH One rich Man hath Lands, not only more than he can manage, but so much, that letting them out to oth... DUDLEY NORTH Nor in truth, can Forreign Trade subsist without the Home Trade, both being connected together. DUDLEY NORTH The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for... 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CLAY NORTH We didn't like the way we gave up yardage last week, but we liked how the kids played in the red zon... CLAY NORTH Our critics so far have been utterly incompetent. How do I know this? Because I know the "soft under... GARY NORTH There is only one Bride; God is not a bigamist. He took no gentile wife under the Old Covenant, and ... GARY NORTH Christians are supposed to love each other. Communists are supposed to share bonds with all proletar... GARY NORTH Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to i... ALEX NORTH Today it's not culture; it's box office. ALEX NORTH A lot of people in California garden in the nude, but there are naturists all over the country. JAY NORTH She didn't want to be reminded of her past or how different her present was from the future she'd ta... FREYA NORTH Have you ever or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage, or in terrorist activities, or genoc... CLAIRE NORTH In 1789 the French rebelled and found an emperor. The Americans found their freedom from the British... CLAIRE NORTH The honeymoon period of (Wells Fargo) we knew was going to have an impact. MARK NORTH Some of my bigger goals are building relationships and proving myself as someone who's going to be a... MARK NORTH I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have ow... DOUGLASS NORTH I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s. DOUGLASS NORTH I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I su... DOUGLASS NORTH I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to... DOUGLASS NORTH I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly ... DOUGLASS NORTH My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best. DOUGLASS NORTH My wife and I now live in the summers in northern Michigan in an environment which is wonderfully co... DOUGLASS NORTH What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the... DOUGLASS NORTH My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metrop... DOUGLASS NORTH My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War ... DOUGLASS NORTH It may be said, let him take Money at Interest, and not buy at Time. But then Men must be found, tha... DUDLEY NORTH So that it cannot be denied, but the lowering of Interest may, and probably will keep some Money fro... DUDLEY NORTH It is said, that in Holland Interest is lower than in England. DUDLEY NORTH And those are the Rich, who transmit what they have to their Posterity; whereby particular Families ... 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There is a very big difference between writing for children and writing for young adults. The first ... 
...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for... 
No one spoke in terms of children's literature, as opposed to adult literature, until around the... 
If you look at the beginning of children's entertainment in literature, the first books that wer... 
Don’t just teach your children to read…
A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the... 
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is ... 
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is... 
But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come." -Winnie-the-Pooh 
Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly ad... 
That is the difference between St. Jude's and all other children's hospitals. The other hosp... 
As Hagrid had said, what would come would come and he would have to meet it when it did. 
More than this, I believe that the only lastingly important form of writing is writing for children.... 
I have children, and this notion - that there might be a single book that introduces children to lit... 
We all must educate children at the youngest ages that private parts are private, 'no' means... 
Being a working mom, you want to make a difference in our schools, which is making a difference in o... 
My focus is mainly on education. I believe education made all the difference for me, and it is certa... 
Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children; and life is the other way around. 
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way roun... 
No more bare bodies in film scenes for me. For my children's sake, I must stop. The other kids a... 
There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them o... 
There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas... 
If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy... 
The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the othe... 
There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference... 
Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories ... 
One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door,... 
One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a diffe... 
I would say there's a lot of similarity between folk and punk. It's written for the common m... 
Once upon a time, they say, there was a girl...there was a boy...there was a person who was in troub... 
She asked where he lived. 
A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomp... 
Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!'... 
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no ... 
The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and ... 
I would be concerned if one of my children were constantly watching nothing but horror films or indu... 
The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other ma... 
Having children is not for everyone, but I think it's a beautiful lesson in it not being all abo... 
Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid. 
Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and the... 
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other peopl... 
It's true that I have a strong social sensibility, because - bah, because I raised thre children... 
Fairytales are healthy for the children. As they grow up, the magical thinking wears off, but the fa... 
There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achieveme... 
I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all... 
There are two phone calls parents don't ever want to get from their children. No. 1 is, 'I&#... 
Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so... 
I think the biggest difference is that I've noticed Western parents seem much more concerned abo... 
There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't ... 
There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. 
There's a difference between expectations and aspirations. 
We have neither the pretension to solve all the problems of these deaf children nor the intention to... 
We have neither the pretension to solve all the problems of these deaf children nor the intention to... 
When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground,... 
A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fi... 
God knows, we don't want prayer. 
Vladimir Putin is leading a dying country. Vladimir Putin's regime exports three things: petrole... 
Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized. 