"What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called children's or YA is in fact crossover and is equally valid for anyone who likes to read fantasy."

-- Robin McKinley

#Children Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.”

Source : Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Stepping Westward”, p.50, Pan Macmillan
“When we walk slowly, the world can fully appear. Not only are the creatures not frightened away by our haste or aggression, but the fine detail of fern and flower, or devastation and disruption, becomes visible. Many of us hurry along because we do not want to see what is really going on in and around us. We are afraid to let our senses touch the body of suffering or the body of beauty”
“Shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.”
“I do not think it is selfish to want to donate a kidney "only" to family members.”
“A need to concentrate on each sound, so that every blade of grass would be as important as a flower.”

Source : "Arvo Pärt 24 prelüüdi ühele fuugale". Documentary, DVD, 2002.
“If you're supposed to be a 'personality,' then you might as well have a personality.”
“Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.”
“While drawing grasses I learn nothing 'about' grass, but wake up to the wonder that there is grass at all.”

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