Nogie King Quotes

#1. Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

Marianne Williamson

#2. Wishes on their way to coming true will not be rushed.

Arnold Lobel

#3. A reader should know what he might reasonably expect under a particular label.

John Christopher

#4. I actually don't subscribe to the notion that comedy is easier than drama. When you're trying to be funny and you're not funny, that's really terrible. It's a horrible feeling.

Tom Hollander

#5. The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage.

James Payn

#6. Tell me my heart beats a war drum
that my eyes are not just armies
but my spine
is a harpoon.

Buddy Wakefield

#7. He loved to draw. Animals pouncing mostly. And trees. Always lone trees in black landscapes.

Malorie Blackman

#8. We hate our squalor.

Andrei Platonov

#9. When he speaks at last, his voice is weary, and defeated. He doesn't know how to be angry with me, either. We are like damp wood that won't light.

Madeline Miller

#10. I was lucky to live 10 years in France, so I learned how to eat and drink there.

Lorraine Bracco

#11. I have always been a fan of Jim Henson, and I love his Creature Shop creations, the skill of the puppets and the characters he creates.

Honeysuckle Weeks

#12. The image of your goal properly planted and constantly nourished with positive, expectant thought-energy will cause your goal to develop into a burning desire.

Bob Proctor

#13. If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was younger I felt like authors were like wizards or something. Turns out they're total muggles.

John Green