Books Quote by Lurlene McDaniel Download Open image “By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.” — Lurlene McDaniel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Children Confronting Kids Novel Odds Ordinary Overcoming Shows
I hope in my books I help children to see their strengths, and show them I have some idea of what they may occasionally… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
I don't know if anything I write will endure, but I do try to write it as a narrative that will not only challenge… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning. — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
The greatest reward for a children's author is in knowing that our efforts might stir the minds and hearts of young readers with a… — Charles Ghigna Copy Share Image
Writing children's books all started out as a way for me to give back and make a difference. — Coy Bowles Copy Share Image
I am an author-illustrator of children's books - and yet - I must confess I don't do the books for the kids. When I'm… — Bill Peet Copy Share Image
Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
I've been lucky enough to have made enough of these types of children's books that while I don't necessarily know what works, I know… — Mo Willems Copy Share Image
If you are writing children's books, you need to be a ruthless killer. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I believe young children in particular enjoy witnessing the survival of youthful protagonists against terrible odds. I think it's gratifying to the reader when… — Robert Paul Weston Copy Share Image
If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven. — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
On TV, stories and events are finalized in 30 or 60 minutes, or neatly tied up after a season or two. The best stories… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
Old characters never die, but I do need to take a break from them in order to create new ones. — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
Most people believe they have a clear idea of what's right and wrong. Many say they know how they'll act, or how they'll handle… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
“He doesn't teach you what to think. He teaches you how to think.” — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
Well, in Angel of Hope, Amber ends up going in her sister's stead. The focus of that book and the next one coming out,… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
She did know that the journey to happiness was laborious and strewn with seeds of suffering. She guessed that it was probably a place… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
You know not every book has to have a happy ending, but it has to have a satisfying ending. — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
