top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."
Author Name
Personal Development
"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it."
Fun
"Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs."
Cat
"It's perfectly okay if you don't understand every single one of them. For one thing, I make a lot of corny jokes, and you have to be 40 years old to get some of them."
Humor
"If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I've been issued."
Talent
"You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death."
Death
"I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated."
Love
"These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that's important."
Books
"I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation."
Books
"When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke."
Interest
"In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better."
Writing
bottom of page