Peter Blume Quotes

#1. I gravitated to Judy Blume early on. 'Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing' was my favorite, with a realistic and relatable protagonist in Peter Hatcher. When I reached the fourth grade, I made the leap to science fiction and never looked back.

Jeff Kinney

#2. My job is to give people who work hard all week something to enjoy on Saturdays and Wednesdays.

Arsene Wenger

#3. You can't mess around with young readers - you have to cut straight to the heart of the story. The character can be complex, the plot can have some surprises, but the emotions have to be clear.

Rodman Philbrick

#4. Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.

Italo Calvino

#5. She tasted sweet, like oranges, liquid sunshine in my mouth as we kissed, our tongues playing together.

Selena Kitt

#6. To feel sabi is to feel keenly one's own sharp and particular existence amid its own impermanence, and to value the singular moment as William Blake did "infinity in the palm of your hand" - to feel it precise and almost-weightless as a sand grain, yet also vast.

Jane Hirshfield

#7. Newspaper stories were like newly caught fish, worthy of attention only for as long as they remained fresh, which was not very long at all. They

John Connolly