Norman Macleod Quotes
Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.
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My husband taught me so much about being a father. No matter what any of our children do, my husband will always believe in them, love them and accept them.
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I love what I do professionally, I'm really blessed. But my priority is my husband and my children.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.
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Then is when I decided to take it to Archie to see if they could do it as a comic book. I showed it to Richard Goldwater, and he showed it to his father, and a day or two later I got the OK to do it as a comic book.
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I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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On two or three book tours, I have visited bookstores in the Mall of America and signed copies of my books and introduced myself to store employees who I hope will sell them.
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Our education system was developed for an industrial era where we could teach certain skills to our children and they were able to use these skills for the rest of their lives working productively in an industry.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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'Confessions of a Video Vixen' is not a book about my encounters with celebrities, or anyone else for that matter. It is my life story, thus far, which just so happens to include some people you may have heard of.
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Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.
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Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.
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I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.
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Besides, isn't there something in the book of rules about a man may not marry his cousin? Or am I thinking of grandmothers?
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There's no book that absolutely everyone loves.
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I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.
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In September of 2001, I was living in the West Village of Manhattan, working from my home for a tech start-up.
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Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.
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I hoped for something else. It's a simple dream, but it speaks to us so powerfully because it is our dream - one that exists at the very center of the American experience. One that says if you're willing to work hard and take responsibility, then you'll have the chance to reach for something else; for something better.
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Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.
