Jon Scieszka Quotes

#1. What you are is a question only you can answer.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#2. There are six 'Time Warp Trio' books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence.

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#3. We can live in and from the Nature and these Will accept us.

Wij kunnen in en van de natuur leven en deze accepteert ons.

Jan Jansen

#4. How strange to remember typewriters, with their jammed keys and snarled ribbons and the smudgy carbon paper for copies.

Margaret Atwood

#5. I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just don't take that into account in schools on those things like required reading lists. 'Cause that was my experience, say, with my son, who had to read 'Little House on the Prairie' when he was in third grade.

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#6. People say, 'All my son will read is 'Captain Underpants,' or 'My son is crazy about shark books, is that O.K.?' I want to be the person to say, 'Yeah, that's really O.K., as long as he's motivated to want to read.'

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#7. Jeff Kinney's 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' series and Stephenie Meyer's 'Twilight' books got 49,323,701 kids reading.

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#8. For a lot of kids, reading is not magical. It's really hard work.

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#9. When I was one day old, I learned how to read. When I was two days old, I started to write. By the time I was three, I had finished 212 short stories, 38 novels, 730 poems, and one very funny limerick, all before breakfast.

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#10. If the day gets really bad, I can always pull out fan mail. Who else gets mail where kids write to you and say, 'Dear Mr. Scieszka, we were supposed to write to our favorite author, but Roald Dahl is dead. So I'm writing to you.'

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#11. He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace

Mikhail Lermontov

#12. I am honored to have served as our great nation's first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. I will continue to serve as Ambassador Emeritus. And I will make good on my Ambassadorial promise to my wife to stop playing the 'Fanfare' every time I walk into or out of a room.

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#13. If life on Planet Earth was really supposed to be a picnic, we would all have been born clutching gingham tablecloths.

Jonathan Cainer

#14. Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids reading by badmouthing other entertainment. Admit that TV and games can do things books can't.

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#15. And everyone lived happily, thought maybe not completely honestly, ever after. The End.

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#16. I'm not sure what to call 'Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary.' Nonfiction? Movie/toy fiction? But it is any Lego/'Star Wars' kid's dream. Call it spectacular.

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#17. Be a good reading role model. Show kids what you like to read, what you don't like to read, how you choose what you read. Let them see you reading.

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#18. GIFT-WRAPPED BULLION
The color of our skin does not determine the size of our heart
Kamil Ali

Kamil Ali

#19. The question is still asked of women: 'How do you propose to answer the need for child care?' That is an obvious attempt to structure conflict in the old terms. The questions are rather: 'If we as a human community want children, how does the total society propose to provide for them?'.

Jean Baker Miller

#20. I believe that all blogs should have at least one set of rhyming words. Just because. Does. Fuzz. Was.

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#21. 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.

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#22. I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September.

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#23. Your brain is doing some great work when it's laughing.

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#24. Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.

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#25. For the longest time, you couldn't even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.

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#26. And I'd let him- not because I weakened and wanted sex, but because it would have been spiteful, beyond redemption, not to allow us this hope.

Amy Tan

#27. Notwithstanding, therefore, that we have not witnessed of a large continent, yet, as we may predict the future occurrence of such catastrophes, we are authorized to regard them as part of the present order of Nature.

Charles Lyell

#28. We're promoting such a narrow version of literacy that we're not including what a lot of boys like.

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#29. 'Just looking at pictures' used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no words are now accepted as reading.

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#30. Read as much as you can, and then sit down and write.

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#31. I'm just trying to get kids motivated to be readers by connecting them with a book they like.

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