Enid Blyton Quotes
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.
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I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
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Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
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I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
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The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.
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Children crave routine and find listening to the same stories over and over again soothing. If you've grown weary of the holiday books you've read your kid 7,883 times, try adding 'dude' to the end of every line of dialogue.
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I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.
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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
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I do like to go to movies. I like to be in the theater. I like the event of it.
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Without war there are no heroes. What harm would that be? Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.
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I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.
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Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.
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I love the outdoors and looking at snakes, squirrels, bugs - just going through the woods and being part of it. You can smell the different trees. And I listen. There's so much you can learn by listening, by sitting and watching things happen.
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Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
