Eight Quote by Chris Van Allsburg Download Open image “I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head” — Chris Van Allsburg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Eight Left Stills Writing Years
You like to think with young adults that with your books, a little part of it has reached them and will stay with them.… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder. — John Boyne Copy Share Image
The child from nine to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing. — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Pretty much every night of their lives, my 8-year-old sons have absorbed themselves entirely in books. As toddlers, they pointed out pictures, made conjectures;… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-year-olds refuse to believe in… — Caitlín R. Kiernan 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
Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old,… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
Hearing the faraway sounds of children at recess makes me understand that I am no longer life's main character. — Alec Sulkin Copy Share Image
“Simply read a child’s story that he or she is writing for school, and you will discover some of the inner struggles with which… — John S. Savage Copy Share Image
I wrote stuff so deep. I saw a letter that I wrote when I was about 11, and I'm like, 'Calm down, girl. You're… — Shira Haas Copy Share Image
My ideas are not meant to suggest dreams or reality, but a surreal quality. — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
'The Polar Express' began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, 'What if a boy gets on… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
“Book lovers love books!" her mother announced. "There's romance about the books- even having them seems to have a kind of excitement." from Mr.… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now. — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
People have asked me a lot, 'What comes first? The pictures or the story? The story or the picture?' It's hard to describe because… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey. — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Some people may contend that there is no image more charming that a child holding a puppy or kitten. But for me that's a… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Even the most complicated stories start with a very simple premise. — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Brainstorming, for me, takes place in my bed at night between the time I turn out my lights and I finally fall asleep. It… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers… — Barney Ross Copy Share Image
Ninety-eight percent of the things that come out of my mouth are intended to be harmless or even charming. They're not ever intended to… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
The first draft is usually junk. You have to work on it seven to eight times. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I started a list of things I want to teach my children, and that list is eight points long. The first one is, do… — Tina Roth-Eisenberg Copy Share Image
There could be some compromise, but I think we have to stick to the provisions of the treaty, and the provisions of the treaty… — Jacques Santer Copy Share Image
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