Rosemary Wells Quotes

#1. What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.

Peter Singer

#2. The only books that work are those which fly through the air - the ones you let happen, not make happen.

Rosemary Wells

#3. The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the mover.

Marina Warner

#4. Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.

C.S. Lewis

#5. The characters in a children's book must reach into the heart of the reader on page one. Emotional content is the main reason a child and a parent will go back to a book again and again.

Rosemary Wells

#6. Read to your bunny often and your bunny will read to you.

Rosemary Wells

#7. All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times

Rosemary Wells

#8. Most people presume my mustache is not real because it's much darker than my regular hair.

John Hodgman

#9. Bear in mind the simple rule, X squared to the power of two minus five over the seven point eight three times nineteen is approximately equal to the cube root of MCC squared divided by X minus a quarter of a third percent. Keep that in mind, and you can't go very far wrong.

Eric Idle

#10. More than the clarity we need to have about what MUST change, we need to have even more clarity about what MUST NOT change...

Assegid Habtewold

#11. I've always thought that a lot of really good writers go wrong by getting so into the craft and the technique and perfection. Perfection can be the enemy sometimes. Some songs don't need to be told perfectly. Life is messy and has loose ends, and sometimes I think the songs should reflect that.

Patterson Hood