Books Quote by Marion Dane Bauer Download Open image ““I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child. (ix)”” — Marion Dane Bauer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Children
“A good friend of mine once said, "I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child.” — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
“I don't mind bigots. You're allowed to be bigoted, if that makes you happy. Just do it at home. And not around the children.” — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
“The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of an eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share Image
“My parents weren't interested in recommending books to me. Reading was an act of revolution, therefore I was expected to find my own way.… — Ianthe Brautigan Copy Share Image
“His main example was to read like a child--very curiously and carefully ... But with the full intellectual sophistication of a brilliant adult.” — Daniel Menaker Copy Share Image
“Children are notoriously literal readers, and I was no exception. Books, I believed, contained the entire truth about everything, and if you could just… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
“The more I read the more I fought against the assumption that literature is for the minority - of a particular education or class.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I was an adult before I began to learn that there is a difference between a conversation and an argument. — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
You don't choose your themes; they choose you. The meaning of your stories will rise out of your deepest longings, often out of longings… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
“The power of fiction is that it gives us, as readers, the opportunity to move inside another human being, to look out through that… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
Human beings are storytelling animals. That's what separates us from other creatures, not just having thumbs or using tools. — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
Writing the opening lines of a story is a bit like starting to ski at the steepest part of a hill. You must have… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
Never think of revising as fixing something that is wrong. That starts you off in a negative frame of mind. Rather think of it… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
I used to tiptoe up to my bedroom door and leap into my room in an attempt to surprise my dolls in the midst… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
It is the nature of stories to leave out far more than they include. — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
“But never in his saddest dreams had he thought he'd spend his last years dusting this enormous old house for no one at all.” — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
“You should know better than to run from a storm, too. We wolves are careful. Always we are careful. But we are not afraid.… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
“So much longing. So many lives filled with longing. It's what stories― all our stories― are made of. And what is longing made of… — Marion Dane Bauer 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
