"I love writing picture books because they are very child-centered and family-focused. The idea of creating a story within 2-5 typewritten pages is very magical, especially what comes after that. When the words are matched with illustrations - I consider this a kind of high magic. It is amazing to witness the way the process comes together."

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Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net

Jerdine Nolen

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Magic Quotes

“I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy.”
“And then of course, obviously as far as issues such as global warming, something has to be done on the corporate side, there has to be some mandate or some legislation.”
“Your tattoos are supposed to be some connection to your personality. That's a lot more important than going in and just picking one off a wall. I've never understood why people get butterflies tattooed on their bottoms or whatever. That's really weird.”
“It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible.”
“Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.”

Source : Erik H. Erikson (1993). “Childhood and Society”, p.269, W. W. Norton & Company
“Through some crack the smoke of satan has entered into the Church of God.”
“As flower blooms in spring, compassion grows in mindfulness.”
“Nothing but widespread suffering will produce any effect on Congress”

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