Vivian Vande Velde Quotes

#1. The facts that make the world real
these depend on the unreal in order to be recognised by it.

Ingeborg Bachmann

#2. A [reformed] vampire ... mostly tries to make reparation for his previous evil by doing good deeds-most commonly, apparently, going into the crime solving business.

Vivian Vande Velde

#3. Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems.

Vivian Vande Velde

#4. People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.

Dick Wolf

#5. Mothers are legendary for being able to read the thoughts of their children at just the right moment.

Vivian Vande Velde

#6. If you don't like vampire games, don't play

Vivian Vande Velde

#7. Though I have looked everywhere / I can find nothing lowly / in the universe.

A.R. Ammons

#8. The wolf sniffed beneath the door to be sure this was a human cottage. The scent was undeniable. No pigs, except in bacon form. The wolf thought bacon form was a very sensible way for pigs to behave.

Vivian Vande Velde

#9. Little girls who hang around with vampires need to get used to dead things ... In fact, little girls who hang around with vampires already are with dead things.

Vivian Vande Velde

#10. Don't, she begged, knowing that surely she was trying his patience, that his kindness would stretch just so far, that if he were truly kind he could never have survived as a vampire.

Vivian Vande Velde

#11. The Israel stories were really hard for me to write, because I think that my book is very much about politics, but it isn't political. It really was important for me to not have a political agenda at all, because I have a hard time stomaching any political fiction that feels message-y.

Molly Antopol

#12. They'd poisoned me, dammit. Probably to trade my dead body to the barbarians for Wulfgar's safe return. Or maybe just for the fun of it.

Vivian Vande Velde

#13. Perhaps Bach and Beethoven are strange bedfellows for Mickey Mouse, but it's all been a lot of fun.

Walt Disney Company

#14. Dragons don't ask for maidens, he said. Dragons are offered maidens.
Alys shook her head to show she didn't understand.
Is a king likely to be a maiden? Or a village headman? It's the men who make the laws that decree that maidens be offered.

Vivian Vande Velde

#15. Try not to become disappointed if someone doesn't like a story you've written. Stick up for your ideas, but listen to what other people say, too. They might have good advice.

Margaret Mahy

#16. And there was this sweet-looking little old lady with her white hair in a bun and everything, the typical grandmother type, and she was swearing her head off. I guess Alzheimer's had brought out her inner sailor.

Vivian Vande Velde

#17. Then, early, early, early in the morning-just as in countless Disney films-I heard a rooster crow. But guess what? They don't do it just once.

Vivian Vande Velde

#18. That's very kind of you," she said bitterly, for she no longer believed in kindness. "And you're willing to do this ... why? Because you're fond of helping others?"
"I'm fond of revenge," the dragon answered.

Vivian Vande Velde

#19. If Saint Bruce doesn't like your poem, he chops your head off.

Vivian Vande Velde

#20. I taught Sunday school when I was younger, and ended up an elder in the church, and it just seemed to me that a lot of people who went to church certainly weren't - the rest of the week - living what I would call an Christian life.

Dick Van Dyke

#21. If we lived correctly, there would be no need to concern ourselves with the bowel. However, most of us are not living right.

Bernard Jensen

#22. Those Grimm brothers," she said with a sigh, "they'll never amount to anything." And she was right because all they ever became was writers.

Vivian Vande Velde

#23. People always talk about good, fresh country air, but I kept getting wiffs of something that was neither good nor fresh but definitely country.

Vivian Vande Velde

#24. Giannine
What are they going to do: smack me on the head with a pamplet?

Vivian Vande Velde

#25. There, close enough to spit on
if I'd been a barbarian and inclined to spit
was the dragon.

Vivian Vande Velde