Book Quote by Berkeley Breathed Download Open image “My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.” — Berkeley Breathed ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Children Instant Kids Periods Writing
Writing children's books all started out as a way for me to give back and make a difference. — Coy Bowles Copy Share Image
Although I started writing children's books before I had kids, my approach changed after I became a dad. — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
I labored for eight years thinking I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Becoming a parent changed my life drastically and left me little time for leisure reading. — Ainsley Earhardt Copy Share Image
Originally I had planned to write just a couple of children's books and then, return the focus on adult literature. A funny thing happened… — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
It was the case for a number of years that I was doing a book a year, but that was back when I was… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
I keep writing children’s books, I keep making children’s books, because I still have them inside of me. — Oliver Jeffers Copy Share Image
I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy. — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
“Neither knew it at the time, but a line had been crossed that could not be uncrossed- a running leap over a chasm of… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
“Just the usual formality before the chaos begins. Like playing the National Anthem before a Cubs game.” — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world. — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat. — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively,… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners. — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke. — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
I happen to think nearly everybody - especially those one might find in the odd issue of 'People' magazine, including me - is frightfully… — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
