Coal Quote by Neil Gaiman Download Open image “Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals.” — Neil Gaiman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Coal Creativity Imaginative Newcastle Storytelling Tales Writing Young
If you find yourself caring about old stories and regret the ways in which they slip out of reach of young audiences, you may… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for… — Plato Copy Share Image
Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort. — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
“In our modern age, there are writers who have heaped scorn on the very idea of the primacy of story. I'd rather warm my… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Let children have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times; heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales, even where… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
“As a child I scribbled; and my favorite pastime during the hours given me for recreation was to ‘write stories’. Still, I had a… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“We tell our stories, especially as young people, in part because we want them to be true. We want life to be full of… — Dana Frank Copy Share Image
“Storytelling is a creative way to engage a young child who is not ready to read books. Imagination is the key to unlock hidden… — Cassie Pope Copy Share Image
It's lovely to write for the youngsters because through your story, you can teach them the lessons of life. — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
“The first thought of writing this book came to me two years ago after I had driven through the mining district of Lanarkshire. The… — Edwin Muir Copy Share Image
The resultant tales from life are stirring reader interest, survivor passions and unease among Britons. — Francis X Clines Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Like all sentient beings, Fat Charlie had a weirdness quotient. For some days the needle had been over in the red, occasionally banging jerkily… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“[T]hey could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through 2015; while we always strive to operate a full capacity… — Joe Craft Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The only difference between black coal and a precious diamond is the amount of pressure it endured. — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
a TEN-YEAR-OLD lad in Indianapolis who was arrested for picking up coal along the side of railroad tracks is now in jail. If the… — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
Coal is the moral choice, particularly for the developing world... The model for the world right now should be Australia. Australia gets it. Scientifically they get it, politically they get it and particularly when it comes to the United Nations, they get it. They are pulling out of this, they are repealing their carbon tax and Canada seems to be… — Marc Morano Copy Share
Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron frame of the hearth, the black cooking pots and pans and stoves. Was it a mourning? Was it protective coloration? Was it mere depression of the senses? No matter what the original color of the paleotechnic… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share
I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit. — Sam Rockwell Copy Share Image
I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon a basis of . . . individualism, conquest and exploitation . . . A social order such as this, built upon such wrong and basic principles, is bound to retard the development of all. The… — Helen Keller Copy Share
Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image