Ned Vizzini Quotes

Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.

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• One half who graduate from college never read another book.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
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  • College
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• Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Time
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• I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Up
  • She
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• Everyone's clamoring for the fourth book in the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy, which makes me laugh. Just the part of 'a fourth book in trilogy' that makes me laugh, not the clamoring for the next book.

  

  E. L. James
  • Book
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• Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • People
  • Done
  • Job

• Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the corner with my book and the newspaper. He kind of runs around a little bit, and then he goes and sits on top of the picnic table. He never plays with other little dogs.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Book
  • Myself
  • Table

• I was a top-notch cartoon model for Hanna Barbera, and they made me into a cartoon series called 'Devlin,' which ran for seven years, and I was on lunch pails and coloring books and all of that. It's really interesting being a coloring book when you're young – most kids colored in coloring books, but I made money off coloring books.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Book
  • Kids
  • Interesting

• The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Book
  • Reason
  • Pictures

• A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Book
  • First
  • Concern

• Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Book
  • Universe
  • Language

• 'Out' was my real breakthrough, the novel that became a hit in Japan and sold a lot of books, so it was sort of an obvious choice for being the first book to be translated into English.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Real
  • Book
  • English

• It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Music
  • Book
  • Interesting

• Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Kids

• I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Book
  • Inspiration
  • Storyteller

• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Moral
  • Thing

• One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Things
  • Prison
  • Lessons

• Never read any book that is not a year old.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Book

• Besides, isn't there something in the book of rules about a man may not marry his cousin? Or am I thinking of grandmothers?

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Book

• You're a smart person. You're going to figure out where you can be more effective and more efficient with your own resources, and that's going to put more of an investment and emphasis on your future.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Future
  • Smart

• Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!

  

  Cheech Marin
  • Comedy

• I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function.

  

  Donald Norman
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Simplicity

• What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age, so long as we write continually as well as we can. I feel that every time I write a page either of prose or of verse, with real effort, even if it’s thrown into the fire the next minute, I am so much further on.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• There is no such thing as a dumb question but there is such a thing as a dumb person asking a question.

  

  Behdad Sami
  • Question
  • Dumb

• Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Book
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