Elizabeth McCracken
Related There's a children's book by Anthony Browne called 'The Tunnel' that I've always... BILLY HOWLE Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children... HENNING MANKELL VICTORIA BECKHAM LENA HEADEY MARTIN AMIS LIBBA BRAY B. B. KING GARTH NIX When you have kids, for me, it really changed me. I was always empathetic to other children, but now... SAM TRAMMELL There's a difference between children's literature and all-ages literature. One is written e... RYAN NORTH I have a complicated relationship with the horror genre. I love it; I loved it as a kid growing up, ... ZACH GALLIGAN People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's ac... DAVID WALLIAMS KEVIN NEALON ELLEN DEGENERES I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for childre... JEWEL Fairy tales, before they were sanitized, were very dark, and kids love that. 'Coraline' by N... EDWARD CAREY MICHAEL MORPURGO Adult actors are really childish, and that's nice to be around when you're a kid. So the big... JACK DAVENPORT NAT WOLFF I go to movies with my children and see fat kids burping, parents portrayed as total morons, and kid... MELISSA MATHISON KURT COBAIN BOB KEESHAN I love to sit down and have my drink in the afternoon. It's so lovely if there's no noise, n... KELSEY GRAMMER CANDACE BUSHNELL Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON BARBARA BUSH ELLEN GILCHRIST It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a par... ADAM MANSBACH HANS-ULRICH OBRIST Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as dem... DAVID WALLIAMS I love 'Child's Play 2!' I love Don Mancini. That movie has a great theme: You better li... BETH GRANT KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND CHELSEA CLINTON RICHARD THOMPSON I've always loved superheroes, and I'm sure every single kid out there is gonna love these s... CAYDEN BOYD OLIVIA COLMAN The thing is when you play a character it's the persona you bring across from a book to film, or... ALEX PETTYFER People think children's books are about teddy bears and little flowers. I realize people sometim... PETER SIS Whereas Books of Wonder excels with children's literature, McNally Jackson is where I go for my ... ADAM SILVERA I love the fact that little kids think I'm a witch. A mum might come over and say 'I'm s... NATALIA TENA LOUIS C. K. ANTHONY BOURDAIN SARAH DUNN For me, I love food. It's my greatest pleasure and also the thing that could ruin you as well. I... JON FAVREAU DAVID SUZUKI ALAN ARKIN SHAILENE WOODLEY It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON Follow your instincts. Do the kind of writing you love to do and do best. 'Stiff' was an odd... MARY ROACH JULIANNA BAGGOTT ANN HOOD MARC JACOBS MINDY KALING It's pathetic, but I don't really remember my first time reading 'The Great Gatsby.'... SUSAN CHOI I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relation... ALICIA KEYS I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working... COLLEEN HASKELL TRENT REZNOR PALOMA FAITH ADRIANA LIMA The swashbuckling independence of my childhood was not all good, and as a father, I'm puzzling o... JOHN DICKERSON There will be no 'Mommie Dearest' in the lives of my children, and no books like the one the... DON AMECHE AARON RODGERS Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love L... RANDALL PARK A person might see that I've blurbed a certain book and decide they want nothing to do with it! ... MIRIAM TOEWS 'Joker' was a violent, dark, and brutal book, so I wanted to do something a little less heav... LEE BERMEJO LARRY THE CABLE GUY JONAH HILL My concentration span is truly that of a gnat. Some people have this ladder, and that's all ther... NATASCHA MCELHONE CLAIRE TOMALIN DAVID BECKHAM ELLEN DEGENERES I love memoirs and biographies, learning about other people's lives. Two of the ones that I love... ISABEL GILLIES If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'... MANUTE BOL I would love to have a complete family. I'd love to do it all at once. I'd love to be able t... MICHAEL EALY MARY J. BLIGE It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON WARREN MITCHELL I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX JOHN CENA ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO JAMIE VARDY A mother's got to be there to raise the children. That's all there is to it. I feel badly fo... ERIC BRAEDEN STEVE CARELL ANDIE MACDOWELL TED RALL J. D. SALINGER I read everything. When I say everything, I read everything: children's literature, Y.A., scienc... JESMYN WARD AASIF MANDVI I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ... ZARA PHILLIPS My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least ... STEVE BALLMER PHILIPPA GREGORY MELISSA ETHERIDGE JULIA SAWALHA Going through the ranks and all the training you do as an actor, you hope you're going to make i... SAM CLAFLIN SARA RAMIREZ Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have alw... P. L. TRAVERS KENDRA WILKINSON MILLIE BOBBY BROWN It's really all about family, love and the children for me. I work at that every day. CELINE DION
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I'm lucky that I do something I love, and I am proud, as I think it's a positive message to ... 
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