"Over and over again women and men ... come to me saying, I don't know enough to write a book for adults, and so I'd like to try a book for children. And I tell them that when they have learned enough to write for an adult perhaps a child will listen to them."

--

Source : Mabel Louise Robinson (1922). “Writing for Young People”

Mabel Robinson

#Children Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Just because you have teenagers in a movie doesn't make it a teen movie.”
“If I had faced it then, I wouldn't be facing it now, but sooner or later you have to choose between running and facing the thing you thought you could not face.”

Source : Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.122, Penguin
“'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.”
“I learnt the hard way about positioning in business, about catering to the right segments.”
“All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world.”
“You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.”
“...Time does not heal, It makes a half-stitched scar That can be broken and again you feel Grief as total as in its first hour. -Elizabeth Jennings”
“The dead...are more real than the living because they are complete.”

Source : "Siegfried Sassoon's long journey: selections from the Sherston memoirs".

You may also like: