For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.
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Related I'm interested in illustration in all its forms. Not only in books for children but in posters, ... CHRIS RIDDELL I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, count... SUSAN STRAIGHT I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings an... VIGGO MORTENSEN I love reading all kinds of books. I usually have about ten books going at any one time - books abou... MARY POPE OSBORNE I've always been a big fan of utopian, future, new-world stories - 'V For Vendetta,' com... ANDY BIERSACK Fairy tales are such evil little stories for young children. CECELIA AHERN But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short s... JONATHAN COE I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things. BINDI IRWIN Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively... TERRI WINDLING I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible... G.K. CHESTERTON Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture ... ANTHONY BROWNE I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either re... RICHARD K. MORGAN I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But... ELLEN POTTER Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, m... METHOD MAN And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in genera... JULIANNA BAGGOTT Adults don't take fairy tales seriously but just see them as reading for children. I have found fert... DAISUKE TAKAHASHI As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories. TALULAH RILEY One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others... MARY ROACH I like to read Bengali novels and short stories. I am not that fond of reading English books, as I d... ARIJIT SINGH Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover oth... PATRICIA REILLY GIFF I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - bu... YURI LOWENTHAL For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, s... C.S. LEWIS But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would... PATRICIA CORNWELL I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson -... JO NESBO I'm a severe graphic novels junkie. People ask me about it, and I say I like the graphic novels.... DAVE PIRNER I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a... DAVID CHIPPERFIELD I never wrote my books especially for children. P. L. TRAVERS Wherever I am, I take books, not novels. CAPRICE BOURRET She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all th... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a lit... CANDACE BUSHNELL I love floral prints for little girls, and I love mixing prints. KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative ... RAFAEL MONEO It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of t... FAY GODWIN My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use m... JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA As a historian, I love every little detail, but whole long passages about wood paneling and journeys... DEBORAH HARKNESS My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she ... DAV PILKEY Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't re... LAUREN OLIVER We started off in the Oak Hill Flea Market, about 1988, selling just about everything, but after a s... JAMES BROWN Painting is poetry in pictures as music is poetry in notes. LEAH DANCEL My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 ye... TERRY PRATCHETT When I started earning money from screen-writing, for a long time my only indulgences were books. JOHN LOGAN There are storm clouds before the storm, there are the living before the dead. I need a figurehead, ... KEVIN OUTLAW old books -- little tombstones of ideas and history AMY TAN The artistic methods of poetry, painting, photography, and writing share certain commonalities of de... KILROY J. OLDSTER I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all ... NATALIE BABBITT Thus he spent his whole life searching for his own truth, but it remained hidden to him because he h... ALICE MILLER I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books. WERNER HERZOG the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I guess I never grew up. I was still reading kids' books in high school and college. I was alway... MICHAEL PATRICK HEARN My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them i... JON SCIESZKA I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started to cha... CHARLES KING I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales. CAROL ANN DUFFY Books seem a little old-fashioned, but hey, I can do old-fashioned if it's good. TIM THARP I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot ... ANDREW CLEMENTS The fireplace is warm nook Penina Mezei’s house in fairy tale in which the "fairy-tale-in Jukebox"... PENINA MEZEI Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science c... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Each of those stories will be original, ... It's a good outlet for ideas I don't use in the books. KATHY REICHS Writing books isn’t a drastic departure from writing for the stage, GEORGE CARLIN My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't ... ANNE FADIMAN Latin [...], it was the sign of being able to detach yourself from here and now, abstract your under... LORNA SAGE I grew up with Bible stories, which are like fairy tales, because my father was a minister. We heard... AMY TAN If you look at the beginning of children's entertainment in literature, the first books that wer... LEE UNKRICH Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh... ALEXANDRA FULLER There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic boo... JOHN RIDLEY I was a top-notch cartoon model for Hanna Barbera, and they made me into a cartoon series called ... TAYLOR NEGRON What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, ta... MALORIE BLACKMAN When I was 10 years old, I loved - I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I... JANE GOODALL I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, ... ENID BLYTON [T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels... PAUL AUSTER Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask for anythin... CORNELIA FUNKE Well, I want novels,' said Tessa. 'Or poetry. Books are for reading, not for turning oneself into li... CASSANDRA CLARE what are inside books may not all that necessarily be different from what are outside books at all ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to g... ENID BLYTON Don’t look for permanent love. You will be disappointed. It is found only in novels, fairy-tales, ... GIRDHAR JOSHI I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some o... TOM BERENGER I particularly like the fact that there is no set list of books. Whatever books children choose coun... JACQUELINE WILSON I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good s... FANNY HOWE Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not t... KATE FORSYTH I think that being read to every night is the reason why I was plowing through volume after volume o... RACHEL NICHOLS Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of g... OSCAR WILDE Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories ... COLUM MCCANN Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them... ARNOLD LOBEL Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love t... ARNOLD LOBEL There is a very big difference between writing for children and writing for young adults. The first ... GARTH NIX I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration b... MICHAEL FOREMAN Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as dem... DAVID WALLIAMS As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to t... PIERS ANTHONY When I was a little girl, I watched all old movies. My mother liked old movies, and she loved shoppi... DITA VON TEESE I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids ... BEVERLY CLEARY My experience is that books take on a life of their own and create their own energy. I've repres... BILL CLEGG Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and ... BILL MUMY I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign corr... ALAN FURST Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my f... ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Of course I loved books more than people. DIANE SETTERFIELD I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have ... RACHEL NICHOLS As for fairy tales, he understood that they were reflections of the people who had spun them, and we... LAINI TAYLOR Whereas Books of Wonder excels with children's literature, McNally Jackson is where I go for my ... ADAM SILVERA Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a pain... ABHIJIT NASKAR
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ARTHUR QUINN Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process. ARTHUR QUINN Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions ... ARTHUR QUINN The word of man is the most durable of all material. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivatio... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The present is the only reality and the only certainty. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical G... ARTHUR MILLER Rascals are always sociable -- more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in hi... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Socialism is a vast machine for churning out piles of goods marked Take it or leave it. ARTHUR SELDON Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are locat... ARTHUR KOESTLER True creativity often starts where language ends. ARTHUR KOESTLER Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and wh... ARTHUR PHELPS A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Id... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match. ARTHUR MILLER The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't get out and those outside don't want ... ARTHUR BRISBANE The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happe... ARTHUR MILLER It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendiu... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER