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“People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.”

People Way Want Children Character Parent Roles Written Fields South Entertainment Asian Lament

Author:Aasif Mandvi

“I don't differentiate in the way that the genre creators want differentiation to be made. I feel that I have never written children's or YA stories particularly.”

Way Want Feels Children Made Stories Written Creator Genre Differentiate Differentiation

Author:Robin McKinley

“There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why aren't people reading 'Midnight's Children?' Nobody knows why these phenomenons happen but they're great.”

People Knows Wells Children Book Happens Reading Written Code Giants Phenomenon Midnight Nobody Knows Well Written Da Vinci Code

Author:Denise Mina

“If as a child I had written a story, the best story that I could imagine, I would have written as indeed is happening to me.”

Ifs Children Stories Imagine Written Happenings

Author:Paolo Maldini

“I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.”

Knows Children Book Play Stories Interesting Written Claims Children Book Story Book

Author:Enid Blyton

“I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.”

Thinking Wells Children Mother Father Sin Virtue Written

Author:Charles Dickens

“I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.”

Years Children Stills Ends School White Written Pages Research Paint Frustration Forty Bangs Slap Mania Malady Forty Years Old

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“"God loves all his children" is somehow forgotten But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago.”

Years Children Book Five Written Hundred Years Ago Forgotten God Love Thirty Paraphrase

Author:Macklemore

“I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.”

Thinking Writing Years Mind Firsts Children Book Quality Written Pages Blank

Author:Walt Disney

“I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until they read the instructions written in a book by a strange man.”

Men Feels Children Book Would Be Written Strange Capable Ashamed Instruction Raising Children Strange Man

Book:The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully

Source: The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully

“I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.”

Children Book Hope Reading Written Goes On Reader Happy Reading Books Joy Of Reading

Author:Beverly Cleary

“I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part of that imaginary life came from reading.”

Thinking Firsts Children Bigs Reading Imagination Written Imaginary First Love Written Word Imaginary Life

Author:Zoe Kazan

“What I wish is that people would look beyond the tribbles and see I've written some other books that I really would like people to notice. There's The Man Who Folded Himself, there's The Martian Child, which is about my son and the adoption. There's The War Against The Chtorr, which is my magnum opus, my great epic story.”

People Men Looks Children Book War Stories Wish Written Son My Son Adoption Epic Martians Epic Stories

Author:David Gerrold

“I remember, when I was a child and wrote poems in little clasped books, I used to kiss the books and put them away tenderly because I had been happy near them, and take them out by turns when I was going from home, to cheer them by the change of air and the pleasure of the new place. This, not for the sake of the verses written in them, and not for the sake of writing more verses in them, but from pure gratitude.”

Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846