"Books can ignite fires in your mind, because……" — Gary D. Schmidt
"Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches."
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49 Quotes by Gary D. Schmidt
Gary D. Schmidt has 49 quotes on this site.
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Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?
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No matter what happens, there is always the business of the world to attend to.
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In the whole story of the world, bananas have never once been a special treat.
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When a girl holds a rose up to you, you run better, let me tell you.
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Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.
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Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does…
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There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power.
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The world is Trouble...and Grace. That is all there is.
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Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.
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The world turns and the world spins, the tide runs in and the tide runs out, and there is nothing…
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When gods die, they die hard. It's not like they fade away, or grow old, or fall asleep. They die…
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I saw my town as if I had just arrived. It was as if I was waking up. You see…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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