23 Feb WHAT’S SO GREAT ABOUT BOOKS?
Posted at 22:26h
in about writing
I can’t imagine life without reading and hope I never have to!
Great books open our hearts and minds and show us how to be better, whether we’re kids or adults.
Consider these ideas on books:
- TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they’ll have with twenty-six. Open your child’s imagination.
- Open a book. ~Author Unknown
- Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life. ~Jesse Lee Bennett
- Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.” ~Helen Exley
- Books had instant replay long before televised sports. ~Bern Williams
- You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. ~Paul Sweeney
- I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. ~Anna Quindlen
- The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived. ~Howard Pyle
- When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before. ~Clifton Fadiman
Want to write for kids? Whether you want to write fiction or nonfiction, check out my workbook, Write a Marketable Children’s Book, Not Your Typical How-to Write Guide.
Co-written with Shirley Raye Redmond, it reveals the step-by-step approach that Shirley Raye and I used to break into children’s publishing and to keep selling.
