Children Quote by Russell Hoban

Sometimes there's nothing but Sundays for weeks on end. Why can't they move Sunday to the middle of the week so you could put…

— Russell Hoban

Too-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. It’s a relation of self to the moment. Or not, depending on the person and…

— Russell Hoban

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and…

— Russell Hoban

“I had a salad. If I were to say that today's tomatoes were an index of the decline of Western man I should be…

— Russell Hoban

“He was thinking what a long and wide thing time is, to have so many happenings in it.”

— Russell Hoban

Who is Alice?" asked mother. "Alice is somebody that nobody can see," said Frances. "And that is why she does not have a birthday.…

— Russell Hoban

“Mark you that and noat you wel.”

— Russell Hoban

“Seed of the little Seed of the wyld Seed of the berning is Hart of the chyld . . . Out goes the candl…

— Russell Hoban

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here…

— Russell Hoban

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in…

— Russell Hoban

“Before the motorcar replaced the horse, and for some years after there were many illustrators who drew horses with the same authority with which…

— Russell Hoban

When I write a book, I don't have a plan or an outline. The characters move the action, and the action develops the characters.…

— Russell Hoban