Emma Walton Hamilton

I think you have to have a personal connection, and that's what I am always looking to try to create: a personal…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

Stereotypes have their roots in truth.

— Emma Walton Hamilton

Dramatic reading and writing for kids can open a window to individuality and to expression that nothing else does, because all of…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

I was able to hide a lot behind 'Walton,' and found that to be quite useful.

— Emma Walton Hamilton

So often we think, well, kids learn to read at school, I don't have to be responsible for that. But in fact…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

And for me I think I was originally a theater person, a producer/director/actor.

— Emma Walton Hamilton

I am passionate about reading, for myself and for kids. Our future as a compassionate, productive, healthy society is rooted in our…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

Netflix is so amazing because they take chances. They'll take a risk, be edgy, be quirky.

— Emma Walton Hamilton

The arts give kids the building blocks with which to then play.

— Emma Walton Hamilton

Graphic novels might really speak to one child who's struggling with the other kinds of reading and might help them discover that…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

We're both very passionate about the arts. Mom, of course with her arts background. I have a theater background and work with…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

My mother used to say, "Tell your brain you want that piece of information or you want to solve this problem, and…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

If you wait until you're an adult to be exposed to the arts, it could seem elitist, it could seem out of…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.

— Emma Walton Hamilton

I think I personally, as a writer, read differently knowing how tough it is to write, knowing how challenging it is to…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

Mom was never self-pitying. She was ferociously focused on making sure that everyone understood that she knew how fortunate she has been.

— Emma Walton Hamilton

When I was three years old, a nanny took me shopping and I saw large cut-outs of Mary Poppins in the store…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

With my mother, Julie Andrews Edwards, I've authored such children's books as the 'Dumpy the Dump Truck' series, 'Dragon: Hound of Honor,'…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

I have a transgender nephew on my father's side of the family. So I'm extremely aware of how important it is to…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

I have a picture of me sitting on the step of a brownstone stoop with my mom and all the Muppets around…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

People ask me all the time what it's like to work with my mother. I feel completely blessed because, first of all,…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

My work in the theater began to shift more towards young audience type of work and education programs for children, arts education…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

We certainly had our moments when I was growing up. But the great thing was, if Mom was working on a night…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

My husband, Steve Hamilton - an actor/producer and co-Director of the Southampton Playwriting Conference - and I had been working in the…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

It might be helping to explore a story visually by going to see a museum exhibit that's relevant to something that somebody's…

— Emma Walton Hamilton