Why such attention to detail? Because one verb can make the difference between a page that really impresses in a picture book, and one that doesn’t help to move the story forward as it should.
Anita Yasuda
Category: Quotes
I don’t want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.
Astrid Lindgren
I don’t want to write for
Do you want to do this thing? Sit down and do it. Are you not writing? Keep sitting there. Does it not feel right? Keep sitting there. Think of yourself as a monk walking the path to enlightenment. Think of yourself as a high school senior wanting to be a neurosurgeon. Is it possible? Yes. Is there some shortcut? Not one I’ve found. Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.
Ann Patchett
Do you want to do this
I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case, it wasn’t until I was 13 and discovered The Lord of the Rings that I learned to love reading.
Rick Riordan
I have a great deal of sympathy
Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you have one of your own.
Barbara Kingsolver