Tansy Rayner Roberts Quotes

History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took for granted that his readers would know.

Tansy Rayner Roberts

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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.

H. Rap Brown
- Free
- Gun
- Going
My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.

Patricia MacLachlan
- Writing
- Book
- Child
I grew up in a very large, poor family.

Florence Henderson
- Up
- Family
- Poor
It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.

Samantha Morton
- People
- Poetry
- Understand
With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.

M. J. Rose
- Books
- Will
- Talk
I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.

Natasha Richardson
- Believe
- Father
- Loss