"Words should wander and meander. They should fly……" — David Almond
"Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing."
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29 Quotes by David Almond
David Almond has 29 quotes on this site.
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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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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to…
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I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change…
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One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott,…
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Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in…
— Lewis Carroll
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I'm from a small town so, like, everyone's married with children or about to have children. So it's a little…
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All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all…
— Julie Andrews
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You can't blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don't ask for it…
— Jennifer Aniston
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The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor…
— Hank Aaron
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I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I…
— Hank Aaron
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Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never…
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