“My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.” ChildrenNamesLordWallOfficeMarkLondonMy ChildrenCoveredPearlsEarnestBucksSignaturesAutographsDickensFamous WritersTennysonKipling Author:Debbie Macomber
“I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment.” WritingChildrenPersonsHas BeensCharacterStoriesBodyAbilityJudgmentMarkHearingSmellActressesLouisiana Author:Rebecca Wells
“Every sentence has its drumbeat. rhythm is one of the most powerful dimensions of language: it separates tribes, united families, soothes children, and shocks us into new awarenesses. Every good writer, marching to his or her own drumbeat, marks out a vibrational field as home territory. The cadences of our sentences carry echos of ancestry and influence as surely as the double helix that orchstrates the life of the body.” WritingChildrenHomeBodyLanguageUnitedPowerfulInfluenceAwarenessFieldsMarkVery GoodSentencesRhythmDimensionsShockMost PowerfulSongwritingTerritoryTribesAncestryGood WritersCadenceUnited Family Author:Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
“The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.” ChildrenEarsMarkPassagesAdolescenceBud Author:Amity Shlaes
“Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.” FeelsShouldChildrenLittlesEyeVoiceLinesBoysFourWonderfulToughMarkMiseryHis EyesSpokesWhiskeyLittle BoysWhiskyScotch Whiskey Author:Martha Gellhorn