Dr Seuss Writing Quotes

#1. There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.

Henri Bergson

#2. I'm not a fan of Dr. Seuss's better-known work, but his fables leave me awe-struck. 'Ten Tall Tales' is a collection of stories where his trademark anarchy is combined with a tautness of writing that shines an affectionate yet uncompromising spotlight on some of the absurdities of human behaviour.

Giles Andreae

#3. I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably ... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again.

Dr. Seuss

#4. The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific.

Dr. Seuss

#5. My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn't going to work for me - I was quite clear about that in my early teens.

Tino Sehgal

#6. The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it's a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

Dr. Seuss

#7. Writing for children is murder. A chapter has to be boiled down to a paragraph. Every word has to count.

Dr. Seuss

#8. Amish culture is built around preserving and protecting the family unit.

Serena B. Miller

#9. It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

Plutarch

#10. The sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism
his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman down, but a tragic virtue.

Jon Krakauer

#11. I tend to basically exaggerate in life, and in writing, it's fine to exaggerate. I really enjoy overstating for the purpose of getting a laugh. For another thing, writing is easier than digging ditches. Well, actually, that's an exaggeration. It isn't.

Dr. Seuss

#12. Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.

Thomas Jefferson

#13. The whole point of life is to maximize your emotional income. Getting that ball and going is a tremendous physical thrill, an ego thrill, a personal power satisfaction.

John McNally

#14. To assault the total culture totally is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind's wisdom and experience without the rotten structure in which these glories are encased and encrusted.

Judith Malina

#15. A kid is a guy I never wrote down to. He's interested in what I say if I make it interesting.

Dr. Seuss

#16. I always loved strange stories like the Dr. Seuss stuff. 'Go, Dog. Go!' was one of my favorite stories - it still is. It's just such a bizarre yet true book. And I did well reading and writing as a kid throughout school. I think early on that's what made me realize what an advantage that is.

Jon Scieszka

#17. So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.

Dr. Seuss

#18. This was Penelope, and this was love.

Julia Quinn

#19. Less than 30 essential medicines are available in India's public hospitals and often they are out of stock.

The Lancet

#20. The more you fail in private, the less you will fail in public.

Twyla Tharp

#21. Globalisation feels like a runaway train, out of control.

Gordon Brown

#22. Women will no longer be silent when they suffer injustices against them.

Gloria Allred