"And what is wrong with playing with words?……" — David Almond
"And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!"
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29 Quotes by David Almond
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Truth and dreams are always getting muddled,
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A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a…
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Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring…
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The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not…
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I don't want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like…
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We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.
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What are you?" I whispered. He shrugged again. "Something," he said. "Something like you, something like a beast, something like…
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We have each other, and our stories twist and mingle like the twisting currents of a river. We hold each…
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This is our world. Aye, there's more than enough of darkness in it. But over everything there's all this joy,…
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Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in there jackets,…
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The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53
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She finds tales everywhere, in grains of sand she picks up from the garden, in puffs of smoke that drift…
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More Children Quotes
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
— Asia Argento
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
— Aristotle
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
— John James Audubon
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