Quotes About Newbery

#1. Once 'Walk Two Moons' received the Newbery Medal, I decided to write full-time. Partly because there seemed to be an audience out there who wanted to read what I wanted to write, and partly because I could now support myself financially through writing.

Sharon Creech

#2. I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on the road.

Linda Sue Park

#3. Obviously, until you write Fuck It, We're All Going To Die, the Newbery Medal is still going to go to people like me.

Neil Gaiman

#4. You know, I'm normally so sanguine. But ... being accused of rushing these two books out to cash in on the Newbery Medal, without access to time travel equipment or anything, just makes me want to bang my forehead gently against a tree for half an hour. Is it too much to ask people to think?

Neil Gaiman

#5. 'Weedflower' was already in the copyediting phase when I heard about the Newbery award, so it didn't really influence my writing of that book, but since then, I have become more aware of having an audience.

Cynthia Kadohata

#6. I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin romance!

K.A. Applegate

#7. 'Dear Mr. Henshaw' came about because two different boys from different parts of the country asked me to write a book about a boy whose parents were divorced, and so I wrote 'Dear Mr. Henshaw,' and it won the Newbery, and I was - it's been very popular.

Beverly Cleary

#8. After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.

E.L. Konigsburg

#9. Reading is important.
Books are important.
Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

Neil Gaiman

#10. I'm afraid your literary prizes don't give you any jurisdiction in this particular instance, sir.

Lizzie K. Foley

#11. The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed to remain in a state of savagery.

Judith Martin

#12. My husband is American but Italian. Then I have the Mexicano side. I see both in my kids. My daughter is more Italian - she leans towards pizza - and my son leans more towards guacamole and puts lime in everything.

Thalia

#13. Stories. They're everywhere ... You never know where they start and you certainly don't know where they'll end. If they ever DO end. (Nevermore)

Linda Newbery

#14. America is now the only global superpower, and Eurasia is the globe's central arena. Hence, what happens to the distribution of power on the Eurasian continent will be of decisive importance to America's global primacy and to America's historical legacy.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#15. My technique, starting with a quick outline in pencil, is designed to record first impressions, with no time for second thoughts.

John Newbery

#16. For our Hogwarts is in danger from external, deadly foes
And we must unite inside her or we'll crumble from within

J.K. Rowling

#17. You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.

Martha Beck

#18. Well," I said. "If you need me, I'll be outside, playing with sharp objects.

Rick Riordan

#19. Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.

Jack Nicklaus

#20. Don't try to fine-tune somebody else's view.

George H. W. Bush

#21. It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.

Neil Gaiman

#22. The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

Felix De Weldon

#23. If you work outdoors be passive, go with the weather. This may mean two hours sheltering from a downpour, followed by a wonderful burst of sunlight and a rainbow.

John Newbery

#24. Big Ma didn't need to say any more and she didn't. T.J. was far from her favorite person and it was quite obvious that Stacey and I owed our good fortune entirely to T.J.'s obnoxious personality.

Mildred D. Taylor

#25. I try not to handle the foreign subjects with my English techniques and preconceptions, but to paint Sydney in Sydney and Tangier in Tangier.

John Newbery

#26. When I met Richard Leakey, I thought, 'This is the most charismatic man I've ever met.' He has no legs. He lost them when his plane was sabotaged. But he's an interesting, sort of narcissistic guy.

Eric Roth

#27. When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I'll have a book.

Betsy Byars

#28. Who wanna be next? While you a dead superstar, the record company still cashin' checks.

Master P

#29. You'll kiss a lizard, but not me," Matt whispered. "There's something seriously wrong with you."
"He's cuter than you.

Amy Lignor

#30. The three adventurers were overcome by that delicious weariness which suddenly overtakes one at the end of an outdoor day.

Carol Ryrie Brink

#31. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

James MacDonald

#32. Our long-term security depends on our deep faith in liberty. And we'll continue to promote freedom around the world.

George W. Bush