Dejong Quotes

#1. If you teach a kid to read, they'll have the potential teach themselves anything.

A.J. DeJong

#2. The pen can be just as dangerous as a sword... At least while walking.

A.J. DeJong

#3. There's no place like a library!

A.J. DeJong

#4. He bet Law swatted flies by dropping buildings on them.

Jez Morrow

#5. I always said I'm just an instrument; I'm transparent, like a medium, the language passes through me. Which is a bit like saying I'm a recording device, I start and I go. I had a real connection to ongoing, language production in real time.

Constance Dejong

#6. Until the longing came again, like the longing that you hear in the whistle of a train that is going far away. But the longing isn't really in the whistle, the longing is in you - for the wonder and the loveliness that is in the world, and everywhere.

Meindert DeJong

#7. If you just go on dreaming then it stays a dream and becomes stale and dead. But first to dream and then to do isn't that the way to make a dream come true

Meindert DeJong

#8. The bookworm catches the early bird!

A.J. DeJong

#9. Practice makes legibility!

A.J. DeJong

#10. Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his past experiences.

David Halberstam

#11. See, loving heart, how He delights in you. When you lean your head on His bosom, you not only receive, but you give Him joy; when you gaze with love upon His all-glorious face, you not only obtain comfort, but impart delight.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#12. A Book in the hand is worth two in the bush.

A.J. DeJong

#13. The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.

Tony Kushner

#14. Good things come to those who establish healthy routines.

A.J. DeJong

#15. Nothing is better than spending quality time with my family by reading & using our imaginations!

A.J. DeJong

#16. I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant.

Joan D. Vinge

#17. The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle - it is in you.

Meindert DeJong

#18. Allow me to introduce myself,
the name is Brown, Jane Brown,
and I am the greatest detective the world
has ever seen. I'm known to solve multiple cases,
on any given day, without even breaking a sweat.
In fact, I am working on one now.

A.J. DeJong

#19. It flew away, whatever it was, and now he squinted up and remembered that it was the first time in a long spell he had seen the sky, and he thought: It is longer, lonelier and lovelier than any of my prayers.

Wilfrido D. Nolledo