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I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's The Elephant's Child and The Jungle Book.…
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We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really matter whether that was…
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There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.
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Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers
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But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough.
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Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the…
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Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.
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I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.
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Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war…
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A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to…
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I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.
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Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like…
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I’m not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobody’s gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me.…
— Maurice Sendak
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William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles…
— Marchette Chute
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In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales,…
— Francis Ford Coppola
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A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been…
— Roger Moore
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I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things.…
— Michael Morpurgo
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As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the…
— Jung Chang
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I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic.
— Aimee Bender
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I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera.
— Gian Carlo Menotti
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