Top 45 Fleischman Quotes
#1. When we have no families, we must find support elsewhere. Sometimes in strangers. We're all alone on this earth. We must take any hand that's offered us. I offer you mine...I'll be your friend, if you wish. The faithful kind.
- Elva
Paul Fleischman
#2. Every person has one particular time in his life when he is more beautiful than he is ever going to be again. For some it is at seven, for others at seventeen or seventy, and as Laura Fleischman read out loud from Shakespeare, I remember thinking that for her it was probably just then.
Frederick Buechner
#3. Adult novels are as ephemeral as newspapers. Children's books stay in print for decades.
Sid Fleischman
#4. It was a figure of a whale, with a white triangle that was supposed to be its spray. The spray moved up and down above the blowhole. On top of the spray sat a black-haired woman.
Paul Fleischman
#6. the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad.
Paul Fleischman
#7. The few words of a title are the hardest words for any author to come up with.
Paul Fleischman
#8. Jemmy dipped the quill in beet juice and continued scribbling. "I'll tell him you've got reserved seats in Hell."
"Aye! That's the ticket!
Sid Fleischman
#9. Words were a conjuration, and their charms had begun to bewitch him.
Sid Fleischman
#10. Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity.
Paul Fleischman
#11. Do what helps others.
Refrain from harming others.
Transcend your own ignorance, clinging, hate, fear and delusion.
This and only this is the dispensation of all the Buddhas.
Paul R. Fleischman
#12. As an adult, I'll give a writer 50 pages. If the book doesn't interest me in 50 pages, I'll say the heck with it - there are just too many other things to read. A child won't give you 50 pages.
Sid Fleischman
#13. I don't see any reason to let law interfere with justice around here. We never did before.
Sid Fleischman
#14. It was a girl playing a harp, like in an orchestra. It was in this tree at our campsite. And since it was breezy weather that weekend, the girl's arms were almost always turning.
Paul Fleischman
#15. I am astonished, when I pause to think about it, to discover myself to be an author of humorous novels for children. Or an author at all. I had a childhood much like everyone else's. What went wrong?
Sid Fleischman
#16. Joy was not the raw material of humor ... The dark source was sorrow.
Sid Fleischman
#17. The books we enjoy as children stay with us forever
they have a special impact. Paragraph after paragraph and page after page, the author must deliver his or her best work.
Sid Fleischman
#18. I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way.
Paul Fleischman
#19. Parents should keep 'Eyes Wide Open' next to the 'Kinsey Report' on their shelves.
Paul Fleischman
#20. I'm a very careful, slow writer, and I think a lot of that comes from the care required to be a hand-printer, where if something isn't spaced out enough, you take little slivers of brass or copper and put them between each letter.
Paul Fleischman
#21. I actually went on a vegan diet. So I was nagging myself there. I don't nag other people about it. It was sort of an interesting experiment, and I found it wasn't that hard at all.
Paul Fleischman
#22. Warming is incontrovertible, so in general, you're going to have more droughts, more fires. So I think events like that are the best thing that could happen for righting our ship and getting us on a safer course.
Paul Fleischman
#23. That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a soap opera growing out of the ground. I'd forgotten that tremolo of expectation produced by a tiny forest of sprouts.
Paul Fleischman
#24. A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.
Paul Fleischman
#25. If love is real, doesn't it then last forever? Why? Life is real, and it doesn't last either
Lisa Huang Fleischman
#26. The red-jacketed band stirred to life. The first musician raised his trumpet. The trombone dipped. The drumstick rose. Lea lowered her clarinet. It had been Brent's idea not to have their insturments rise and fall in unison. The staggered motion gave it a more exciting rhythm.
Paul Fleischman
#28. I am Prince Horace!"
"And I'm the Grand Turnip of China!" cutwater snickered.
"Dim-witted villains!" shouted the Prince. "I command you to turn us loose.
Sid Fleischman
#29. Science explains what nature is doing; money often explains what we're doing.
Paul Fleischman
#30. I grew up in a house that might have had the only front-yard cornfield in all of Los Angeles.
Paul Fleischman
#31. She was in trouble, and she passed it on to me like an infection and standing here in the rain I didn't give a damn.
A.S. Fleischman
#32. People don't like to be nagged. When people nag us, we instantly resist, but when the facts force us in that same direction, we instantly adapt.
Paul Fleischman
#33. Mindfulness, as defined by the Buddha, means awareness of incessant change, of arising and vanishing, inside of your own body, which is the ultimate reality of your own life.
Paul Fleischman
#34. What was he looking for, a prince in fine velvets and a crown cocked on his head? Was it clothes that made a prince, Jemmy wondered, just as rags made a street boy?
Sid Fleischman
#35. The sidewalk was completely empty. It was Sunday, early April. An icy wind teetered trash cans and turned my cheeks to marble. In Vietnam we had no weather like that. Here in Cleveland people call it spring.
Paul Fleischman
#36. I came to that wooden marching band. I stopped and looked. There was a trumpet, trombone, clarinet, and drum. Birds don't live alone, I told myself. They live in flocks. Like people. People are always in a group. Like that little wooden band.
Paul Fleischman
#37. Humor is the oxygen of children's literature. There's a lot of competition for children's time, but even kids who hate to read want to read a funny book.
Sid Fleischman
#38. You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland.
Paul Fleischman
#39. In my first story, 'Mr. Mysterious & Company' ... I was asked to take out some of the humor because editors were afraid reviewers would dismiss the book as a joke. Today, humor is enjoyed and no longer regarded as literary brummagem.
Sid Fleischman
#40. Give weather reports. It helps the reality of a scene if foghorns are blowing or kites are in the sky on a windy afternoon or the day's so hot wallpaper is peeling off the walls.
Sid Fleischman
#41. The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.
Paul Fleischman
#42. The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs living in a million crevices ... But the garden's greatest benefit, I feel, as not relief to the eyes, but to make the eyes sees our neighbors.
Paul Fleischman
#43. Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping.
Paul Fleischman
#44. What could be more exciting when the writing is going well and things are falling into place? It's just like riding a fabulous wave for a surfer. There's no better place to be.
Paul Fleischman
#45. A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. It was a mind-altering drug we took daily.
Paul Fleischman
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