Bruce Coville famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.
-- Bruce Coville

#Essence #Tools #Information
Wherever they may have come from, and wherever they may have gone, unicorns live inside the true believer's heart. Which means as long as we can dream, there will be unicorns.
-- Bruce Coville

#Dream #Heart #Mean
There's lots of kinds of chains. You can't see most of them, the one's that bind folks together. But people build them, link by link. Sometimes the links are weak, snap like this one did. That's another funny thing, now that I think of it. Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all.
-- Bruce Coville

#Thinking #Funny Things #People
The first draft of a story is the writer's clay.
-- Bruce Coville

#Firsts #Clay #Stories
Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all... Never was a chain that couldn't be broken. Sometimes its even a good idea.
-- Bruce Coville

#Ideas #Broken #Sometimes
All these guys picking on smart kids and calling them geeks and dweebs are going to grow up and want to know why they don't do something about the terrible state the world is in. I can tell you why. By the time they grow up, most of the kids who realy could have changed things are wrecked.
-- Bruce Coville

#Growing Up #Smart #Kids
Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, peopleâ€”they always go away, sooner or later. You canâ€™t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if theyâ€™ve touched you, if theyâ€™re inside you, then theyâ€™re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.
-- Bruce Coville

#Sympathy #Heart #Love Is
Hey, Geekoid!" yelled Duncan Dougal, "Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV?
-- Bruce Coville

#Stupid People #Watches #Hey
Gadfangled girl things, always robbed me of my common sense.
-- Bruce Coville

#Girl #Common Sense #Common
The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.
-- Bruce Coville

#Teacher #Real #Lying
I am ignoring you. In fact, I think you are a figment of my imagination.
-- Bruce Coville

#Thinking #Imagination #Facts
If you donâ€™t jump, the wings never come.
-- Bruce Coville

#Wings

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