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Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.


A. S. W. Rosenbach

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A. S. BYATT I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.
A. S. BYATT One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there i...
A. S. BYATT I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
A. S. BYATT I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's...
A. S. BYATT If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was ofte...
A. S. BYATT I find the attempt to find things out, which scientists are possessed by, to be as human as breathin...
A. S. BYATT I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I l...
A. S. BYATT When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
A. S. BYATT America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep ...
A. S. BYATT I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before ...
A. S. BYATT The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing co...
GEORGE W. S. TROW Children are the beneficiaries - and also the victims - of the theater of various moments.
GEORGE W. S. TROW Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews boo...
GEORGE W. S. TROW It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. ...
GEORGE W. S. TROW Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught figh...
REV. W. A. SPOONER Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
A. A. MILNE What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
A. A. MILNE Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
A. A. MILNE Tiggers don't like honey.
A. A. MILNE I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him w...
A. A. MILNE Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
A. A. MILNE My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong place...
A. A. MILNE Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
A. A. MILNE To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
A. A. MILNE I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for hims...
A. A. MILNE War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer t...
A. A. MILNE Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A. A. MILNE Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
A. A. MILNE It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enou...
A. A. HODGE Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do...
A. A. MILNE If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that h...
A. A. MILNE The purpose of the present course is the deepening and development of difficulties underlying contem...
A. A. BLASOV Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems...
A A MILNE Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when th...
A. A. MILNE When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A. A. MILNE One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A. A. MILNE Some love one, some love two. I love one, and that is you.
A. A. MILNE Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bi...
A. A. MILNE