"Itâ€™s the ability to bring events and characters to a resolution that draws me to writing, especially writing for children. I donâ€™t want to ever be didactic, but if thereâ€™s something I do want to say, itâ€™s that you can bring things around. You can make a change. Adult novels are about letting go. Childrenâ€™s novels are about getting a grip."

-- Tim Wynne-Jones

#Letting Go Quotes #Children Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what you can write that no one else can - that is, find out who you are and write that in an appropriate narrative and style.”
“When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.”
“Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life, a mark of the naive - or worse.”
“Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.”
“For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.”
“There are no atheist in foxholes.”
“Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They are what we hold on with, nothing else. They are as valuable in themselves as rope with nothing to be tied to.”

Source : Jack Spicer (2010). “My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer”, p.196, Wesleyan University Press
“If I showed you what was in my heart," she said, "it would burn you to a cinder. "I've tried to burn you similarly," it said, "but you never even noticed when I opened my chest.”

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