Children Quote by John Burnham Schwartz

There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that.

— John Burnham Schwartz

Beyond the terrace, a light breeze stirred the reeds at the edge of the pond. Looking out at this intimate vista, one could see…

— John Burnham Schwartz

Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.

— John Burnham Schwartz

“Inaction is not the same thing as patience. It is instead a kind of perpetual waiting room, a sterile holding pen for unlived desire,…

— John Burnham Schwartz

Certain experiences you never forget, no matter how old you become.

— John Burnham Schwartz

For a couple of years at the end of the 1970s, Dustin Hoffman was a fixture in our family. My father was his lawyer…

— John Burnham Schwartz

I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant’s brilliant non-fiction about humankind’s tragically ambivalent relationship with the natural world.…

— John Burnham Schwartz

Anyone who loved Tuesdays with Morrie should delight in reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven. Mitch Albom has populated his larger-than-life tale…

— John Burnham Schwartz

It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.

— John Burnham Schwartz

In Japan, more than in any other country I've ever been in, one is not supposed to write about the people in the glass…

— John Burnham Schwartz

The difference between great actors and the rest of us isn't simply that they know how to make more out of less, but that,…

— John Burnham Schwartz

“I sat thinking. How it was she who'd mentioned love first. How she seemed to be waiting, the door still between us, for me…

— John Burnham Schwartz