Our lives Quote by Margaret Wise Brown Download Open image “We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.” — Margaret Wise Brown ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Our lives Speak Trying Writing
The way we speak is very different from the way we write - especially from the way we write continuous prose. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
You have to create the space for the possibility of people speaking as they do. If writing is supposed to lead us in any… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing. — William Trevor Copy Share Image
A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk. — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go to form of communication. — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
“Dear Father, hear and bless thy beasts and singing birds, and guard with tenderness small things that have no words.” — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
“Nights and days came and passed And summer and winter and the rain. And it was good to be a little Island. A part… — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
A child's own story is a dream, but a good story is a dream that is true for more than one child. — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
I like dogs Big dogs Little dogs Fat dogs Doggy dogs Old dogs Puppy dogs I like dogs A dog that is barking over… — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
I wish I didn't have ever to sign my long name on the cover of a book, and I wish I could write a… — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
there seem to be times of reception and times of creation and it is perhaps difficult not to confuse the two. — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet… — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
In the great green room, there was a telephone And a red balloon And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon... — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling. — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
Everything that anyone would ever look for is usually where they find it. — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
When the groundhog casts his shadow And the small birds sing And the pussywillows happen And the sun shines warm And when the peepers… — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
“We will all, at some point in our lives, fall. Every single one of us. We shouldn't spend our time trying to avoid falling.… — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
There are those who open their hearts to others...who never think twice about giving of themselves. They are the wonderful warmhearted people who make… — Gilda Radner Copy Share Image
Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life. — John Donne Copy Share Image
“Which people take the time to care for their souls, these days? I reckon not many. But...hear this: I think that maybe in our… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
The amazing thing is that we live our lives with the hope that things will go right, that things will happen. And all along… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise. — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
I believe that government is too large, costs too much, spends too much, and has too much regulatory power in our lives. — Tim Walberg Copy Share Image
Don't let a breath escape from your body without Krishna's name. That should be our determination throughout our life. — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
A home isn't just a roof over our heads. A home is a place where we feel loved and where we love others. It's… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The foundations of our lives are far more fragile than we think. So we are severely shaken when life turns out to have a… — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
