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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There is no better gift a society can give children than the opportunity to grow up safe and free - the chance to pursue whatever dreams they may have.
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I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.
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Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They're burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world.
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I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.
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When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.
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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.
