"I wanted to write something visual that I……" — Brian Jacques
"I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall Abbey in my imagination. As I wrote, the idea grew, and the manuscript along with it."
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66 Quotes by Brian Jacques
Brian Jacques has 66 quotes on this site.
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Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully…
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My values are not based on violence. My values are based on courage, which you see time and time again…
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I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning...Who ever thought I'd be a children's author -- let…
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A mouse is small and can go unnoticed: but there is no limit to what a brave heart and a…
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A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is…
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Courage is the moment when an ordinary being becomes an extraordinary being.
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Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human.
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The advice I continually give to young writers is this, "Learn to paint pictures with words." Not just once upon…
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I enjoy walking my dog and completing crossword puzzles.
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I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's…
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Sometimes, I get ideas from dreams. Often, my stories are based on adventures that I, or my friends, have actually…
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I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not…
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
— Jane Austen
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No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can…
— Jane Austen
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In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information…
— Robert Wright
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We worked the medley on side two of "Abbey Road" out carefully in advance. All of those mini songs were…
— George Harrison
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In Downton Abbey, foreplay is basically hanging your clothes up properly
— Allen Leech
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I love Downton Abbey. It's just great. My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth,…
— Jack Whitehall
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I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to…
— Tobias Smollett
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Between the action sequences, the pleasure lies in observing impeccably dressed Brits exchanging barbed witticisms - making it, basically, Downton…
— Karina Longworth
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I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As…
— Jack Irons
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Commemorative stone in the floor of the Chapel of St. George in Westminster Abbey, London, dedicated in 1947: TO THE…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great…
— Karl Philipp Moritz
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