Jon Scieszka Quotes

I remember telling my second-graders the basic 'Metamorphosis' story, saying, like, 'What about - what if a guy woke up one morning and he was a bug? Wouldn't that be weird?' And they loved that. And I think that was the trigger that made me think, like, 'Oh man, here's my audience. They're just a lot shorter than I ever thought they might be.'

Jon Scieszka

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 8, 1954

Topics

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Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.

Andrew Bird

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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Stephen King

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My favorite magazine is the 'Harvard Business Review.' If someone sat across from me in a restaurant and didn't know me, that might surprise them.

Sophia Amoruso

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If people are so obsessed with Freddie that they can't bear to see Queen without him, they should stay home and listen to the records.

Roger Taylor

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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

Rudyard Kipling

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I'm actually in a tradition of classicists with a big public face who like sounding off.

Mary Beard

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Every good business story has a conflict and triumph at the core and a turning point where a transformation takes place.

Dinesh Paliwal

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Rhyme is an attempt to reassemble and reaffirm the possibility of paradise. There is a wholeness, a serenity, in sounds coupling to form a memory.

Derek Walcott

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I am a sale shopper. I love a discounted item.

Brad Goreski

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I don't want to play these games of statistics any more; I have done that. I don't want to be imprisoned by that, or by the morality that is expected of activists. I have never been that pristine person, that role model.

Arundhati Roy

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All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.

Sebastian Coe

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You write, hoping to write a good book; that's it.

Marissa Moss

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