Jon Scieszka quote: "I am honored to have served as our great nation's first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. I will continue to serve as Ambassador Emeritus. And I will make good on my Ambassadorial promise to my wife to stop playing the 'Fanfare' every time I walk into or out of a room."

'Just looking at pictures' used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is b...
JON SCIESZKA

Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines,...
JON SCIESZKA

I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never hav...
JON SCIESZKA

My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them i...
JON SCIESZKA

We're promoting such a narrow version of literacy that we're not including what a lot of boy...
JON SCIESZKA

For the longest time, you couldn't even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the e...
JON SCIESZKA

Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for ...
JON SCIESZKA

I remember telling my second-graders the basic 'Metamorphosis' story, saying, like, 'Wha...
JON SCIESZKA

I believe that all blogs should have at least one set of rhyming words. Just because. Does. Fuzz. Wa...
JON SCIESZKA

There are six 'Time Warp Trio' books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just...
JON SCIESZKA

I like to tell kids that I started thinking about stories when I first started reading stuff like Dr...
JON SCIESZKA

I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M...
JON SCIESZKA

Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birt...
JON MEACHAM

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even l...
JON CORZINE

If you want something, you can't wait for someone to make it happen for you.
JON HUERTAS

More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch wit...
JON STEWART

President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much o...
JON STEWART

I don't care about wealth. What seems to be upsetting is institutionalizing the advantages that ...
JON STEWART

If you watch the news and don't like it, then this is your counter program to the news.
JON STEWART

Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid.
JON STEWART

If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don't have a regime.
JON STEWART

I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. Y...
JON STEWART

I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.
JON STEWART

Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.
JON STEWART

McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.
JON STEWART

Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you kn...
JON STEWART

The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart b...
JON STEWART

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.
JON STEWART

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.
JON STEWART

The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.
JON STEWART

We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been loo...
JON STEWART

I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.
JON STEWART

You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to lo...
JON STEWART

If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they...
JON STEWART

Ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential,' I saw a little light bulb go off. Being a chef is ...
JON FAVREAU

I've been fascinated by the world ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential' by Anthony Bo...
JON FAVREAU

'Swagger' would be the word for 'Dirt On My Boots.' With the real funky drum loop an...
JON PARDI

I was 22 and had worked on Wall Street for a year, and quit my job. I bought a motorcycle and sort o...
JON FAVREAU

I'm not going chic, I swear. The geek endures. But, I mean, a snazzy cool suit looks good.
JON HEDER

One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each sol...
JON KYL

I can be a traditionalist but also play with Luke Bryan and get the crowd to go crazy. I think that ...
JON PARDI

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our...
JON MEACHAM

All of a sudden, I was a young kid in my early 20s, and I had a couple of Broadway shows to my credi...
JON TENNEY

I saw rock n' roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.
JON LANDAU

Movies like 'Chef' are not really box-office monsters in the summertime and don't really...
JON FAVREAU

I toured around the country and met all these Broadway producers who put me in all these Neil Simon ...
JON TENNEY

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terr...
JON MEACHAM

There's something real in women's intuition. It's an accurate signpost for decision maki...
JON VOIGHT

When it comes to celebrities and tabloids, to me that is a bummer. That's a little disappointing...
JON FAVREAU

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursin...
JON PORTER

When Iron Man's flying, we'd send real planes up to do the choreography so that we'd get...
JON FAVREAU

A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not...
JON MEACHAM

People selling content internationally need to be highly focused on selling the right product to the...
JON FELTHEIMER

As a member of Congress, and a parent, I understand the importance of ensuring that families are abl...
JON PORTER

Owners who buy aggressive dogs for security may be kidding themselves: The chances that the victim o...
JON KATZ

When the Beatles wrote 'Paperback Writer,' it couldn't have been the same old thing. You...
JON BATISTE

I think that generally music should be a positive thing, I like Bob Marley's attitude: he said t...
JON FISHMAN

I was born in March 1949, a post war baby boomer.
JON ENGLISH

'The Royals' has emerged as a breakout series that has become one of E Network's highest...
JON FELTHEIMER

It's funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what...
JON STEWART

Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians ca...
JON STEWART

A tiny little baby!' says Tam. 'People look at me like I'm an animal. People who don't know me judge...
JON RONSON

The internet is just a world passing notes around a classroom.
JON STEWART

I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radic...
JON KRAKAUER

Happiness [is] only real when shared
JON KRAKAUER

It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.
JON KRAKAUER

If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, b...
JON STEWART

I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in abo...
JON STEWART

You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning back.
JON ENGLISH

Just every moment with Dick Cheney has been my favorite. Here's what I wonder about Dick Cheney, and...
JON STEWART

Yeah, that's the ticket.
JON LOVITZ

Historic in a good sense, not historic in a sense of 'so we dropped bombs on everyone.'
JON STEWART

Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand g...
JON STEWART

We don't consider ourselves equal opportunity anythings, because that's not - you know, that's the b...
JON STEWART

For me it was just exciting to see fake news catching on like that. We don't… you know, it's inter...
JON STEWART

But we are at war, and we here at THE DAILY SHOW will do our best to keep you informed of any late-b...
JON STEWART

Yes! Finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunishe...
JON STEWART

I can't read lips unless they're touching mine.
JON TROAST

GOP strategists hope the revelation of Kerry's wealth might debunk his status as a, quote, man of th...
JON STEWART

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were sw...
JON STEWART

James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn't Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many ro...
JON LANDAU

Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the...
JON CORZINE

Here's the point - you're looking at affirmative action, and you're looking at marijuana...
JON STEWART

Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instru...
JON VOIGHT

I would still rather be in Silicon Alley. I like the West Coast also, but it's sort of fragmente...
JON ORINGER

I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good ...
JON MEACHAM

Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and comple...
JON MEACHAM

Goats are the cable talk show panelists of the animal world, ready at a moment's notice to inter...
JON KATZ

One wonders whether the Obama re-election campaign may be on the right track as it seeks to apply th...
JON MEACHAM

'Sing It Again Rod' touches all the solo bases since Stewart's departure from the Jeff B...
JON LANDAU

I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud - really rock & roll stuff but with a co...
JON PARDI

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one&...
JON MEACHAM

I'm thrilled to be asked to host the Academy Awards for the second time because, as they say, th...
JON STEWART

If I were in a situation where I had to meet a pack of wolves and my family is with me, I'm goin...
JON SEDA

I like San Francisco, but I don't think I'd want to work in Palo Alto. It seems like a prett...
JON ORINGER

When I went to Everest, I underestimated things. I just didn't know what altitude could do. Or t...
JON KRAKAUER

With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperativ...
JON PORTER

Some people say that their pets will tell them when it's time to go. I don't believe that. N...
JON KATZ

A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led...
JON KATZ

If you're going to love animals and have a life with them, the odds are you're going to lose...
JON KATZ

Some rescue groups are highly organized, experienced, well-funded, nearly professional. Others are s...
JON KATZ

It's easy to see why dog rescue is a mushrooming culture. Turning a troubled person's life a...
JON KATZ

Lifetime dogs intersect with our lives with particular impact; they're dogs we love in especiall...
JON KATZ

Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. B...
JON KATZ

There is no evidence that an animal can take on the sophisticated task of deciding to end his life a...
JON KATZ

When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writ...
JON KATZ

I'm one of those people who has always struggled with emotions and revealing them. When my dog O...
JON KATZ

Kids leave us and go off on their own lives. Family members tell us what they think of us. Animals c...
JON KATZ

When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and pr...
JON KATZ

It is possible to take something beautiful and lasting out of the heart-wrenching experience of seei...
JON KATZ

A good breeder or experienced rescue agency wants you to prove that you'll be a capable caretake...
JON KATZ

Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and deci...
JON KATZ

When you write about animals, of course, you are really writing about the people who love and live w...
JON KATZ

The Perfect Dog is an enticing fantasy pooch. It's the dog that instantly learns to pee outdoors...
JON KATZ

Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life...
JON KATZ

My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, s...
JON KATZ

There is no evidence that dogs have the kind of complex emotional lives and value systems that we do...
JON KATZ

I'm always happy when people choose to get another dog because it's a healthy and healing th...
JON KATZ

I think of animals more as spirits that come and go. They enter our lives at a particular time and t...
JON KATZ

It's important to remember that the animals are not grieving with us. They're very accepting...
JON KATZ

Why is it that if you take advantage of a corporate tax break you're a smart businessman, but if...
JON STEWART

The two biggest things that translate from the pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience an...
JON LESTER

One gets the impression that Elvis Presley does what his business advisors think will be most profit...
JON LANDAU

The best thing is to go public only when you're absolutely sure that's the right move for th...
JON ORINGER

That's the fun of going to a high school reunion: it's seeing the people who you were close ...
JON HURWITZ

Presently, the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought ab...
JON PORTER

There is a lack of talent in technology, and we need to be encouraging kids in school to learn how t...
JON ORINGER

Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Po...
JON KATZ

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house...
JON STEWART

When you get together with childhood friends, for example, there's an intimacy that you instantl...
JON TENNEY

The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and s...
JON LANDAU

I'm just thankful I'm surrounded by good people.
JON PARDI

Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and e...
JON MEACHAM

Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the...
JON SECADA

I'm a funny guy. You've got to be able to make fun of yourself. We only live once.
JON PARDI

First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic....
JON LOVITZ

If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the e...
JON MEACHAM

Gallien cứ băn khoăn không hiểu liệu có phải anh đã nhặt ở cuối bang thứ bốn...
JON KRAKAUER

Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and ...
JON TENNEY

Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their...
JON LANDAU

It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything els...
JON LANDAU

I held top-secret security clearance.
JON OSSOFF

I don't view any of the hits I've ever written as the climax of my career. They're just ...
JON BELLION

I worked on Capitol Hill for five years, and I saw how things work and how they do not. I saw the pa...
JON OSSOFF

It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. Wha...
JON MEACHAM

I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, ...
JON MEACHAM

We played Carnegie Hall, and that was one time where I felt... Carnegie Hall as a legendary, very ve...
JON BATISTE

It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private ...
JON MEACHAM

If you look at the mythology of aliens, there's a lot about gold. It's about them coming for...
JON FAVREAU

We've come from the same history - 2000 years of persecution - we've just expressed our sufferings d...
JON STEWART

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the reje...
JON MEACHAM

Everybody goes to clinics, to hospitals, to doctors, and so on. Some people go to Planned Parenthood...
JON KYL

I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay ...
JON JOHANSEN

I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You w...
JON ANDERSON

Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. ...
JON FOREMAN

I was much crazier than I had imagined. Or maybe it was a bad idea to read DSM-IV when you're not a ...
JON RONSON

The DSM-IV-TR is a 943-page textbook published by the American Psychiatric Association that sells fo...
JON RONSON

I would say television is a focus, and expanding our channel platform is a focus. As for buying libr...
JON FELTHEIMER

I've had a lot of crappy jobs, but one of my favorites was working as a commercial fisherman in ...
JON KRAKAUER

Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did.
JON LOVITZ

The decisions you make affect a lot of people. You have investors, employees, and customers who all ...
JON ORINGER

There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. ...
JON RONSON

Bites are usually not random attacks by strays. The great majority of biting dogs belong to a family...
JON KATZ

I've always liked Atlanta. And not just for the strip clubs, but the shopping and the food.
JON STEWART

Heaven, for me, is one focused project - it's like a weird form of autism.
JON KRAKAUER

For years, I was watching other people have so much fun playing out their version of authorship, lik...
JON FAVREAU

The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriag...
JON MEACHAM

Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reaso...
JON MEACHAM

Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not cov...
JON PORTER

The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed wi...
JON VOIGHT

Between the theme parks and the movies, the Disney iconography was probably the first set of archety...
JON FAVREAU

To ensure we are meeting the demands of existing customers while also attracting new users, we remai...
JON ORINGER

If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack u...
JON STEWART

History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and...
JON MEACHAM

We must do all we can to empower parents and communities to protect our youth and to encourage healt...
JON CORZINE

Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly ...
JON MEACHAM

Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are subs...
JON LANDAU

There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people ...
JON STEWART

I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really hav...
JON FAVREAU

Barry White seemed so filled with self-parody at first that it was easy to dismiss him. But it is be...
JON LANDAU

The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and n...
JON PORTER

I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle ...
JON MEACHAM

Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle betwe...
JON STEWART

I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instrumen...
JON TESTER

Many entrepreneurs have shifted their focus to pursuing VC funding as a primary strategic priority i...
JON ORINGER

I don't know that a movie like 'Daredevil' did better for having Ben Affleck then 'S...
JON FAVREAU

One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wante...
JON MEACHAM

What's fun about chefs is that they're big guys, often, and they might not look like the mos...
JON FAVREAU

War is big business. It's a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and...
JON ANDERSON

Earliest musical memory is probably being scared stiff with my family's band as a youngster on s...
JON BATISTE

You show people playing poker or hacking into a computer; it feels so significant in the script, and...
JON FAVREAU

People can relate more to being honest about your problems, your insecurities, and the things that y...
JON BELLION

I've got a great life. I'm in love, I have a happy, wonderful, beautiful time with my marria...
JON ANDERSON

Ringo Starr may not have much of a voice, but when he sang a song on a Beatle album, it had its own ...
JON LANDAU

People think bigger movies are bad, and that's just not true - there's bad big films, and th...
JON FAVREAU

God’s will for you is to make you more like Jesus. Christlikeness is your target, your goal, your ...
JON MORRISON

If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?
JON MCGREGOR

At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a wo...
JON KRAKAUER

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to...
JON KRAKAUER

The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change ev...
JON KRAKAUER

I am honored to have served as our great nation's first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. I will continue to serve as Ambassador Emeritus. And I will make good on my Ambassadorial promise to my wife to stop playing the 'Fanfare' every time I walk into or out of a room.

Jon Scieszka

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