Rosemary Wells famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times
-- Rosemary Wells

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The characters in a children's book must reach into the heart of the reader on page one. Emotional content is the main reason a child and a parent will go back to a book again and again.
-- Rosemary Wells

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Read to your bunny often and your bunny will read to you.
-- Rosemary Wells

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According to how gifted we are, we are all given a large or small key to this treasury of wonders. I have been blessed with a small key to the world of the young. It's a place where good and evil are clearly stamped. It's a place where the better part of human nature triumphs over tragedies, and where innocence rides high. It is a great pleasure to write there, because the young have what the rest of us only envy, and that is a belief in goodness and perpetual hope.
-- Rosemary Wells

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Live theatre for children is right up there in importance with reading aloud. It used to be part of our heritage many years ago and we've lost it and we've lost everything to screens in this culture and we need to bring it back.
-- Rosemary Wells

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The only books that work are those which fly through the air - the ones you let happen, not make happen.
-- Rosemary Wells

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An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches.
Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.
If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
One hundred percent of our earnings are reinvested in the company, and a great deal of that goes to research.
A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.
A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.
Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel?

Rosemary Wells famous quotes

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