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


Maurice Sendak

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STEVE MARABOLI I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want somethin...
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JANE YOLEN We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
EMILE M. CIORAN Only write a story that only you can write.
ALYSHA SPEER It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanin...
MAURICE SENDAK You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE When you write things down, you are that much closer to achieving them.
MICHAEL B. KITSON I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
OSCAR WILDE While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our com...
JONATHAN SACKS There are enough books in the world. You want to write the ones that are good. The minute you write ...
MICHAEL LEWIS If you can't write a book, write a chapter. If you can't do that, write a page, a sentence or a word...
TARUN BETALA It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.
JEAN WEBSTER There must be more to life than having everything. Judy Newman -Maurice Sendak.
MAURICE SENDAK It comes a point in which you don't know if you write books or the books write you
ROBIN SACREDFIRE I want to write books that only those who read them claim they did.
VIKRANT PARSAI You can't write anything you want. Once you write that first chapter, then everything else is de...
WAYNE GRADY So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ag...
VIRGINIA WOOLF What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. Days are scrolls: Write on them only what you want remembered.
BACH YA-IBN PAKUDA Days are scrolls: write on them only what you want remembered
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NANCY GARDEN Books, I don't know what you see in them . . . I can understand a person reading them, but I can't f...
PETER USTINOV No black woman writer in this culture can write ‘too much’. Indeed, no woman writer can write �...
BELL HOOKS I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all ...
NATALIE BABBITT Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a ...
PETER COCHRANE I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
NORA EPHRON Calabash portrays Jamaica as a highly educated and sophisticated literary society, that we have tale...
JUSTINE HENZELL If people could write as much as they write on Facebook in one day, they could write books and be pu...
VALERIE ROSE STERRETT You can only write well, what you have experienced.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of ot...
EDWARD HIRSCH If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are...
PAUL SCHRADER Only write what inspires you to write. If nothing inspires you write, anyhow. Something might come u...
A.J. CHILSON You must never lose that touch of childishness. You need it if you wish to write for children, if yo...
CAROLYN HAYWOOD A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you wri...
MICK JAGGER I write entertainment. There are some books you read but don't inhale. There are books that will...
MICHAEL ROBOTHAM Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that a...
DEB CALETTI I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a chi...
GEORGE KONRAD If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your think...
OSCAR WILDE If you can write it, I can be it.
KAREN BLACK Remember if you write, write, write, you can never be wrong."---Stephanie Skeem Author of Flotsam
STEPHANIE SKEEM The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being una...
HOWARD NEMEROV It's a big shame that when you have a platform to write about Save the Children, the media inter...
ERIN O'CONNOR 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 It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE Once you hit that income level, you can't take as much of a write-off on your mortgage interest, you...
BEANNA WHITLOCK Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.
DOROTHY FIELDS I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover oth...
PATRICIA REILLY GIFF Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and...
ANDREW MOTION If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Re...
TERRY PRATCHETT I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write becaus...
ORHAN PAMUK My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wis...
SHANNON L. ALDER I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that'...
ERIC VAN LUSTBADER Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three t...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a...
ERNEST GAINES It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because...
NATALIE IMBRUGLIA I don't write so you can believe. I write so you can receive.
SUSIE L HILL There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can r...
HENRY R. LUCE There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can...
HENRY R. LUCE Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.
CAROL SHIELDS If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms.
CHARLES J. SHIELDS One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
NATHALIE SARRAUTE Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write...
GAIL COLLINS 10% of the books that interest you can improve your life. Spend 90% of your time reading them.
LORRIN L. LEE If you're going to write, then write a novel with a Haitian woman in it and try and describe her...
JEFF BUCKLEY I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
J. A. KONRATH Writers are there to write, not experience things. If you want to experience things, become a pirate...
WALTER MOERS Good description is a learned skill, one of the prime reasons why you cannot succeed unless you read...
STEPHEN KING If you feel like you don't have a choice to write it, write it. If you feel like you do have a c...
BILL CLEGG The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about yo...
ALICE MUNRO I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book wh...
CAROL ANSHAW Do you realize if one-tenth of one-percent write out of possibly 40 million viewers - 40,000 write -...
BILL BIXBY You can't write masterpieces in your 80s and be happy too.
MAURICE SENDAK There are so many fun things that you live that you can write about and people of all ages can conne...
MAREN MORRIS A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
JANE AUSTEN I cannot write epic but I can write simple and make it epic
HARISH D. WATHORE Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is ...
RAY BRADBURY One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept o...
SUZANNE COLLINS Imagine you had a friend who was there for you all the time and you were there for them, but they st...
CECELIA AHERN The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about yo...
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JOSH LIEB Write bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a pie...
ARAB PROVERB I write with as much objectivity as I can.
ERNEST GAINES Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word...
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Write.
Write more.
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BRIAN CLARK We say don't try and write about (United States President George W) Bush. That is for when you becom...
FAZAL QURESHI Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for comp...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about th...
IRVINE WELSH You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Get to know your children personally. Know that they can teach you as much as you can teach them. Yo...
NATALIE PHILLIP Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a...
ARABIC PROVERB Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a...
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MAURICE MATERLINCK It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt...
MAURICE SWITZER If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
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MAURICE BLANCHOT Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can neve...
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MAURICE WILKES Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
MAURICE CHEVALIER We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained.
MAURICE HULST There's a lot to be said for the fellow who doesn't say it himself.
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MAURICE BLANCHOT Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe?
MAURICE MASCARANHAS Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
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MAURICE GODELIER The surest way to establish your credit is to work yourself into the position of not needing any.
MAURICE SWITZER Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
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MAURICE RAVEL Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time....
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MAURICE HINCHEY We've been called the soundtrack of people's lives. There have been lots of downs, of course...
MAURICE WHITE We should tell ourselves, once and for all, that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy...
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MAURICE SPEES The results were spectacular. The region associated with aversion was activated the moment the subje...
MAURICE PTITO The politician is an acrobat; he keeps his balance by doing the opposite of what he says.
MAURICE BARRES I'm a faithful Catholic, but they are not my voice. They are a small number of Catholics who have li...
MAURICE HEALY We walked out of the gate looking like we were the ones in the mud and they were a lot quicker than ...
MAURICE CHEEKS The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surround...
MAURICE JARRE I believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.
MAURICE MAETERLINCK I've always felt that we were at our best in the most dire situations this year.
PAUL MAURICE Weather is uncontrollable. Only the Lord above can control the weather. Whatever we get, we have to ...
MAURICE GREENE I think the vulgarity of it shouldn't have been directed at anyone.
MAURICE WILSON That's the end of the search, unless we get a missing-person report. Then it would be more of a reco...
MAURICE LUQUE The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.
MAURICE CHEVALIER An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.
MAURICE CHEVALIER I know there is nothing to say to change my situation. I want to apologize to Laura's father and mot...
MAURICE CHEVALIER Now that I live the life I want to live, I dedicate my time to the part I want to give, to help othe...
MAURICE SPEES Support: OK now that I have to constantly admit "I am not a robot" filling in forms to connect to yo...
MAURICE SPEES Strangers do not exist; we simply create strange situations when being together.
MAURICE SPEES My approach has never been to start from theories to arrive at facts, but on the contrary, to try to...
MAURICE ALLAIS All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
MAURICE MAETERLINCK We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained. - The Way ...
MAURICE HULST Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
MAURICE CHEVALIER Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
MAURICE CHEVALIER Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. -Maurice Chevalier.
MAURICE CHEVALIER Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
MAURICE BARING Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything,...
MAURICE ASHLEY I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incid...
MAURICE ASHLEY