Get to know your kids' minds and how they think.
GAIL CARSON LEVINE Managing to tell a story is very gratifying.
GAIL CARSON LEVINE Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.
GAIL CARSON LEVINE It feels presumptuous to think of writing for adults.
GAIL CARSON LEVINE As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story ...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE 'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
GAIL CARSON LEVINE I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.
GAIL CARSON LEVINE My good ideas are shy. But if they see that I treat the stupid ideas with respect, they come forward...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are close...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at al...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting f...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my b...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
GAIL CARSON LEVINE If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, wo...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.
GAIL CARSON LEVINE I was excited to make my own 'Neverland.'
GAIL CARSON LEVINE I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
GAIL CARSON LEVINE Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an admini...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't sa...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Cl...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE I wished she’d never stop squeezing me. I wished I could spend the rest of my life as a child, bei...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE I wished I could spend the rest of my life... being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.
GAIL CARSON LEVINE Everyone else reached the Shores of Sleep, but I remained oceans away.
GAIL CARSON LEVINE The fast fliers are not disgraced." Queen Ree reached up for the missing tiara. "She saved us, but s...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE Daughter, we didn't need your note - or a prince's visit - to tell us you'd done nothing wrong. We k...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.
GAIL CARSON LEVINE To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miracul...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE I was no hero. The dearest wishes of my heart were for safety and tranquility. The world was a peril...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE Why do you keep reading a book? Usually to find out what happens. Why do you give up and stop readin...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE The Writer's Oath

I promise solemnly:

1. to write as often and as much as I ...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE He stopped and took my hand. "If we die, or if I die..."
He was speaking of dying, and I couldn...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE Who judges the judge who judges wrong?
GAIL CARSON LEVINE I put my fingers around the unmarked ring of the spyglass and twisted. The scene became clear.
GAIL CARSON LEVINE I never met a word I didn't love
GAIL CARSON LEVINE You're Only the fairest when your fairest to yourself
GAIL CARSON LEVINE She asks why I like her.
Might as well ask
Why I breathe.
Maybe tomorrow I won't
GAIL CARSON LEVINE Things change, people change, but that doesn't mean you should forget the past.
GAIL CARSON LEVINE I was born singing. Most babies cry, I sang an aria.
GAIL CARSON LEVINE There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside ...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is ...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE Step follows step,
Hope follows Courage,
Set your face towards danger,
Set your heart...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE Crying is part of the adventure
GAIL CARSON LEVINE Rapid movement was a relief in the midst of so much feeling.
GAIL CARSON LEVINE A library is infinity under a roof.
GAIL CARSON LEVINE Drualt took Freya's warm hand,
Her strong hand,
Her sword hand,
And pressed it to his...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE Oak, granite,
Lilies by the road,
Remember me?
I remember you.
Clouds brushing GAIL CARSON LEVINE …while the outside world was full of danger, I knew my interior. I was certain that I could oust a...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE I love you now... I love you immortally, even if I die and there is nothing left of me.
GAIL CARSON LEVINE Would you favor me with a dance?" Over all the others I was his choice! I curtsied, and he took my h...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE He put his hand on my waist, and my heart began to pound, a rougher rhythm than the music. I held my...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE Climb the day, Drop your dreams, Possess the day.
GAIL CARSON LEVINE And so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after.
GAIL CARSON LEVINE Do you like to slide?" His voice was eager.
Stair rails! Did he suspect me? I forced a sigh. "N...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE If I couldn't sleep, I could read.
GAIL CARSON LEVINE About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.
TED LEVINE I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
TED LEVINE Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed...
TED LEVINE I've had projects before where everyone says 'This is going to be the big thing,' and it...
SAMM LEVINE I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22.
SAMM LEVINE I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.
SAMM LEVINE I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some ...
SAMM LEVINE I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people pri...
SAMM LEVINE I was 11 or 12 years old when I first saw 'Reservoir Dogs.' I remember after I saw that film...
SAMM LEVINE One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any ho...
SAMM LEVINE Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.
JACK LEVINE Impulses are hard to come by these days.
JACK LEVINE This acting was very hard work.
JACK LEVINE Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
JACK LEVINE I'm an outsider.
JACK LEVINE I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
JACK LEVINE It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
JACK LEVINE I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
JACK LEVINE As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
JACK LEVINE I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
JACK LEVINE Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.
JACK LEVINE The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opp...
JACK LEVINE Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
JACK LEVINE So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't...
ADAM LEVINE Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true...
ADAM LEVINE I don't want to be an actor, but why not take these opportunities when they come to you? I'm...
ADAM LEVINE What is a drop of rain, compared to the storm? What is a thought, compared to the mind? Our unity is...
KEN LEVINE I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want...
ADAM LEVINE A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with th...
ADAM LEVINE I don't think any relationship responds well to pressure.
ADAM LEVINE Yoga takes what you have and molds and sculpts it, which is a much more natural way to look and feel...
ADAM LEVINE Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people...
ADAM LEVINE Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.
ADAM LEVINE Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
ADAM LEVINE People see you on TV every day, they start knowing your name. You know, I was always just the guy fr...
ADAM LEVINE I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.
ADAM LEVINE I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.
ADAM LEVINE I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.
ADAM LEVINE Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me.
ADAM LEVINE I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would rea...
ADAM LEVINE Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feeli...
ADAM LEVINE I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
ADAM LEVINE Nothing wrong with making money.
ADAM LEVINE Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
ADAM LEVINE Men need to live and breathe women.
ADAM LEVINE Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.
ADAM LEVINE In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they...
ADAM LEVINE It's sweet that I don't have to do my laundry.
ADAM LEVINE I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.
ADAM LEVINE I have a cameo in every movie. In '50/50,' I'm in the back of the bus.
JONATHAN LEVINE Chase concocted the fraud with Enron. Chase was right in bed with Enron to structure these transacti...
ALAN LEVINE You've got to believe you can do it.
ALAN LEVINE Transparency in waiting times is much more relevant in an emergency. It's more important than infect...
ALAN LEVINE Those who want to defend the current system are defending the indefensible. Only 4 percent of all wo...
ALAN LEVINE We do want to move to a market-based system but understand it is a controlled market system.
ALAN LEVINE Those changes failed to pass the legislature last year. We're hopeful they will pass this year, give...
ALAN LEVINE Obviously, if everyone has contracted with the same ambulance service, there could be serious proble...
ALAN LEVINE Time had run out. We got fantastic cooperation . . . and were able to get the patients to safety.
ALAN LEVINE That would not have gotten people out of harm's way. His position was that it's expensive to even mo...
ALAN LEVINE The agency has to have some flexibility in terms of administration, ... The waiver is approved. It's...
ALAN LEVINE I feel like I'm drowning. Every night, I'm carrying home loads of things to read but I'm too exhaust...
GHITA LEVINE All I needed to do was sing the lyrics that had already been written. I don't know those guys; they ...
ADAM LEVINE To be totally honest with you, I actually didn't meet them. Technically it wasn't so much of a colla...
ADAM LEVINE I love those guys. They're crazy and fresh and interesting. And the s**t that they do is pretty uniq...
ADAM LEVINE that he thinks, he believes he is dead.
ADAM LEVINE You can't find anybody in Washington that doesn't like Katie. That's nearly impossible to do. I can ...
ADAM LEVINE It all sounded questionable. ... I just hope if it's a false accusation, that the amount of media at...
ADAM LEVINE There was a rumor that Jessie and I were sleeping together and it is not true. I'm just going to say...
ADAM LEVINE I had to fight with myself 'cause he's so good, yet he's so popular,
ADAM LEVINE The last time we were in New Orleans was one of my fondest memories of touring. ... So it was partic...
ADAM LEVINE If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and wha...
STEPHEN LEVINE Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.
STEPHEN LEVINE Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.
JAMES LEVINE We are all dead men on leave.
EUGENE LEVINE People obviously do care about celebrities and celebrity culture and particularly how fat or thin th...
ALEX LEVINE We put a trainer with them, in their head and in the gym that they already work out in.
ALEX LEVINE The company tries to introduce foods from around the world, ... Every grain of rice looks like a jew...
ALEX LEVINE We set it up with the color varied and the dishes angled for variety,
ALEX LEVINE We always have one vegetarian menu,
ALEX LEVINE Almost everyone in the kitchen has worked in a restaurant or been to cooking school, ... One person ...
ALEX LEVINE All 'leadership' at Whole Foods go through a two-hour training program in organic certification stan...
ALEX LEVINE Can a Wraith eat an Ori?
ALEX LEVINE Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, suga...
ALEX LEVINE Owen nodded. “Then let’s gear up and get out there.” And, please God, let them all come home s...
ELAINE LEVINE Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
MICHAEL LEVINE Only Irish Coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, suga...
ALEX LEVINE Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world's perfect food.
MICHAEL LEVINE I feel like comedy is where I'm most at ease, but I also have an allergy to silly jokes.
JONATHAN LEVINE I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.
JAMES LEVINE A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.
JAMES LEVINE Over time, we look forward to introducing new advertising experiences and business experiences on In...
MARNE LEVINE Good comedy is ageless.
TED LEVINE I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.
ADAM LEVINE I was taught to do math and read at the same time. So you're six years old, you're reading &...
EMILY LEVINE There are things that I can tell my friends that I just can't tell my family, just as far as how...
JONATHAN LEVINE Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is no...
STEPHEN LEVINE How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)
STEPHEN LEVINE If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, ment...
STEPHEN LEVINE [D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)
STEPHEN LEVINE The wonderful thing about Martha's work is that it showed such sweet empathy with her characters. Th...
ARTHUR LEVINE I will consider what disciplinary actions are appropriate in this case pending the findings.
ARTHUR LEVINE I think people come here not just because of the building, ... They come here because of the institu...
ARTHUR LEVINE On most of our campuses this is a very scary moment. For us as a group, it's a time at which the ans...
ARTHUR LEVINE I think I'll have complex feelings about [the last book], ... It's clearly the series that I will be...
ARTHUR LEVINE We're quite excited about all of these terrific young people, ... It also positions us very competit...
ARTHUR LEVINE He's there with an open pocketbook, but it's more than that. Frank is always there.
ARTHUR LEVINE Don Burke's interests, experience and expertise are extremely relevant, and I can think of no other ...
ARTHUR LEVINE First, I felt just shock, and then I felt there's no way, just no way, Dumbledore couldn't be dead, ...
ARTHUR LEVINE It's the best thing we have right now. Research shows us that children in national board certified t...
ARTHUR LEVINE And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare...
JAMES LEVINE Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusio...
JAMES LEVINE When you're surrounded by people who share the same set of assumptions as you, you start to thin...
EMILY LEVINE I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big ...
ADAM LEVINE Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.
ADAM LEVINE It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense w...
PHILIP LEVINE I think the main [track] will help him just being able to close. Maybe [he's] not good enough, but I...
BRUCE LEVINE The more I read about this episode, the more I realized how important it was to our understanding of...
BRUCE LEVINE The story of the Civil War is usually told as a story of two white armies and two white governments....
BRUCE LEVINE There are a lot of revelations in this book. The proposals discussed here provided an early glimmeri...
BRUCE LEVINE Only a tiny handful of slaves responded to the Confederate proposal. They viewed it as an act of des...
BRUCE LEVINE I think it's cyclical. Zombies have been around for ages, and vampires have run their course; we...
JONATHAN LEVINE Many people were impacted by hurricanes, which made it difficult to serve customers on a consistent ...
BRIAN LEVINE South Florida is our home. It's where we've grown from one store to more than 1,000.
BRIAN LEVINE Office Depot values its relationship with the federal government and is pleased to resolve these iss...
BRIAN LEVINE We knew it was going to have a devastating impact on our business, employees and our customers. We w...
BRIAN LEVINE We're still assessing the damage to stores.
BRIAN LEVINE We'll give it a good shot. We could do well or we could get killed.
CAROL LEVINE I've been teaching tennis for 25 years.
CAROL LEVINE You make a lot of adjustments in the early years, and it gets easier.
CAROL LEVINE It is a safe assumption,
CAROL LEVINE Because men who do any significant kind of caregiving are often seen by family and friends as heroic...
CAROL LEVINE Being thrust into the role of caregiver without any preparation is difficult under any circumstances...
CAROL LEVINE They are not seen as doing anything but helping out, as kids are supposed to do.
CAROL LEVINE This is a tremendous sense of guilt and burden that children should not have to bear.
CAROL LEVINE We had no jobs, no place to live. At his first job he worked for $400 a month.
CAROL LEVINE I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.
PHILIP LEVINE This partnership demonstrates how health status can be improved through education, coordination of c...
ALAN LEVINE going to be very audacious and look to a lot of fringe players to get him back on the map and maximi...
MICHAEL LEVINE People want to connect over shared passions and interests. They're seeking inspiration. We see t...
MARNE LEVINE This is from before she was a porn star, when she was just a horny, little teenager from New Jersey ...
HOWARD LEVINE After conferring with Gov. Bush, I have directed Florida Medicaid to ensure each of Florida's most v...
ALAN LEVINE I am a recovering narcissist. I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is...
EMILY LEVINE I'm a writer and director. And the movie I've seen a million times is 'Coming Home,'...
JONATHAN LEVINE