Eve Bunting Quotes

#1. I always have strong feelings when I'm writing a book. Sometimes when I'm writing a book, I even cry when I'm writing. Once I read a quotation that I thought was very true for me, which is: "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."

Eve Bunting

#2. I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

Eve Bunting

#3. You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel.

Eve Bunting

#4. I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately, I feel like it all the time. I am writing for hours. I do like to write in the morning. I start after breakfast, like 9 o'clock, and I'll write till lunch, about 1. And after lunch, I just have fun.

Eve Bunting

#5. Yes, I have two books that are about me: one of them I wrote, and the other one was written about me. One of my books, which is called 'Spying on Miss Muller,' is really about me even though it's a novel. My autobiography is called 'Once Upon a Time.'

Eve Bunting

#6. Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.

Andre Breton

#7. his school lessons had been unusually

Lois Lowry

#8. Life is made up of chances to make choices, decisions of what you wish to do; the accumulated result of those choices is what you call your life.

Steven Redhead

#9. Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body. Yoga is towards reducing this attachment.

Jaggi Vasudev

#10. It is now an accepted fact that the expression of emotion through painting ... is a source of deep psychological satisfaction ... It is a system which can also in some measure, even compensate for the lack of emotional fulfilment in human relationships ...

Mervyn Levy

#11. I write at a desk. I have a room of my own where I can have my computer. I write in there, usually directly onto my computer. It used to be the room where my two sons used to sleep with the dog and the cat, but now it's all mine. It has pictures of art from my books on the walls.

Eve Bunting

#12. The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.

Morarji Desai

#13. A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.

David Steindl-Rast

#14. I help out at Tall Trees, which my aunt set up on the Central Coast. It's where intellectually impaired young people can paint. Their artwork's sent to hospitals all over Australia to brighten up their rooms.

Jessica McNamee

#15. Yes. It was awful. What sucks even more is that it happened at 'World Famous San Diego Zoo,' that whore of a tourist attraction that insists on forty-seven billboards on every highway and nonstop advertising loops on radio and television.

Michelle Gable

#16. Titles are very hard. Sometimes a title comes before I start to write the book, but often I finish the book, and I still don't have a title. I have to go through the book again, and then sometimes I hope a title jumps out at me from what I've written.

Eve Bunting

#17. This is the difference between traumatic memory and ordinary memory. Traumatic memory stays vivid.

Lenore Terr

#18. It is easier to look the other way. But if you do, terrible things can happen.

Eve Bunting

#19. After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought.

Jeff Greenfield

#20. I love being an author. I love actual writing, and I love communicating with children. And it keeps me young.

Eve Bunting

#21. I hope never to retire. I write so many because it's the thing I like to do most - to write. And if you write every day, you just naturally get a lot of books.

Eve Bunting