"You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them."

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Maurice Sendak

#Children Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever.”
“When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts frustrated, it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.”

Source : Robert Massie; Suzanne Massie (1975). “Journey”
“I'm sure you get energy from your audience; it's a high.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Thank God for the Italians, the most forgiving people of the world. And they sing so loud you can barely hear the music!”
“It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others.”

Source : duc de François La Rochefoucauld, François La Rochefoucauld (duc de), King of Poland Stanisław, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.173
“When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like trying to express our own culture, like, the dominant culture was the thing that was forming us. And I think that that's true today.”
“The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.”
“Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.”

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