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Maurice Sendak

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

Maurice Sendak, American Artist
Books, Children, Interest
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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."

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"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

Walt Whitman, American Poet
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"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher
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"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet
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"Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?"

S. A. Tawks, British Author
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"Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try."

S. A. Tawks, British Author
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"I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist
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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist
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"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil."

Voltaire, French Writer
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