Paul O. Zelinsky famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In its jolly mission to expose the dark underbelly of the childrenâ€™s book world, Wild Things! turns up stories Iâ€™ve been hearing noised about for ages, but with a lot more detail and authenticity.Â The stories may not be quite as sordid as my own imagination had conjured upâ€”although a few of them areâ€”because thereâ€™s no denying that this field is full of mostly nice people!â€”but itâ€™s all fun and a great read for anyone interested in both childrenâ€™s books and the collection of people who make them.
-- Paul O. Zelinsky

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I don't like making fake things. And digital images that look like fake paintings disturb me. But when they don't look fake, I don't really have a problem with it. You're not looking at an original piece of art anyway: when it gets scanned for printing it becomes digital.
-- Paul O. Zelinsky

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I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.
Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.
The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.
Matt Hock was the first person who showed me how much fun and how cool it can be to be a Christian,
Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
I don't remember a drama on TV that had shown a couple could be married but still love each other very much, spend every day as if they were still on their honeymoon, be sensuous, and have fun together.
Wouldn't you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It's a great thrill. It's an honor. It's a compliment. It's fun. I'm enjoying every minute of it!
No one pays me to be nice.
The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.

Paul O. Zelinsky famous quotes

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