“I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important.” MadeImportantSchoolLiteratureInterestingClassEnvironmentTeacherHigh SchoolEnjoyedInteractionEnglish Literature Author:Ellen Ochoa
“I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.” PeopleWellsMadeReadingLiteratureEffortFictionSeriousOne DayDecidedScience FictionMagazines Author:Fred Saberhagen
“I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.” MadeValuesLiteratureBornPoorPovertyFateTaughtTrue Value Author:Anatole France
“Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.” MadeDifferentHumanityLiteratureIndividualMotiveInfinity Author:Ella Maillart
“I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.” ShouldPersonsMadeLiteratureCompact Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)
“There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.” MadeStoriesLiteratureComedyJokesFolksGloriousAllowingJamaicans Author:Neil Gaiman
“I moved here when I was 20 to go to college. After I moved here, I became much more aware of the importance of the culture and literature to my life. Sometimes when you're immersed in something, you just don't notice it very much. Moving away makes you appreciate your culture. Living here, I've thought more and more about India, and what being Indian-American means to me. And it's made me incorporate things from Indian literature into my own writing.” WritingMeanMadeSometimesMovingCultureLiteratureMy OwnCollegeAppreciateIndiaImportanceMovedIndianAmerican IndianMoving AwayAppreciate You Author:Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
“Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even in an age so ferociously anti-romantic as our own, to write fantastic stories for adults: though you will usually need to have made a name in some more fashionable kind of literature before anyone will publish them.” NeedsWritingKindChildrenMadeStillsBookStoriesAgeCoursesLiteratureNamesAdultsFantasticPublishFashionableChildren's BooksChildren's Literature Book:On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature Source: On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
“Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.” LoveMadeHandsSeemsYoungLiteraturePrayerPitySoilCaress Author:Andre Gide