Michael Rosen Quotes

#1. Sometimes I don't want to talk about it. Not to anyone. No one. No one at all. I just want to think about it on my own. Because it is mine. And no one else's.

Michael Rosen

#2. And another thing: because she and my father were very ideological people, always doing things from the body of principle and dogma of the Communist Party, there was a time when I thought that italic writing was Communist. It's not.

Michael Rosen

#3. Anyone who was once a child should have at least one children's book in them.

Michael Rosen

#4. Writing can be a bit like unfolding something ... Slowly, the writer reveals what's happening. But that's only half of what's going on. Writers are very cunning people who are not only unfolding and revealing. Just like conjurors and magicians, they are hiding stuff too.

Michael Rosen

#5. Respect is fatal, isn't it?

Michael Rosen

#6. Dignity is something that all human beings have in common. We are all (all of us who have attained the "age of reason," that is) subject to its demands, whatever place in society we may happen to occupy, and it is this that gives us our inalienable inner value.

Michael Rosen

#7. Commitment is not a barrier to freedom. Commitment is the *exercise* of freedom, the act of making a choice or decision and meaning it. The one without the other is meaningless.

Michael Rosen

#8. Living with a dog is one way to retain something of a child's spirit.

Michael Rosen

#9. dignity" is a term for, as we would now put it, something's intrinsic value - the value that it has by occupying its appropriate place within God's creation,

Michael Rosen

#10. This is me being sad.
Maybe you think I'm being happy in this picture. Really I'm being sad but pretending I'm being happy. I'm doing that because I think people won't like me if I look sad.

Michael Rosen