John Boyne Quotes
I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.
Quotes to Explore
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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
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I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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I have a phone obsession. It's really hard on set sometimes because I'll be checking Instagram, and then I have to remember, 'Oh, crap, I have to shoot a scene or rehearse.' Every now and then, I have to turn it off and live my life.
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When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap product back then. I didn't want to do that. From an early, early, early age, I was like, 'I like music. This performing thing comes easy.' And perhaps that's how I ended up doing what I'm doing today. Being a musician.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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If I weren't a performer, I would be still be writing and songwriting. Plus, I also really want to get into producing.
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
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The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy.
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I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.
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My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs.
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I'm not a very analytical person.
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I've always been slightly embittered about computers because it was the only subject I failed at school.
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I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.
