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Jon Scieszka Quotes

If the day gets really bad, I can always pull out fan mail. Who else gets mail where kids write to you and say, 'Dear Mr. Scieszka, we were supposed to write to our favorite author, but Roald Dahl is dead. So I'm writing to you.'

Jon Scieszka

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Day Writing You Bad I Can Say

Once you create a loyal customer base, it's tough for a competitor to take that away.

Joe Mansueto

Tough Customer You Create Take Away

Some books that I've read on the Kindle, I've been like, 'I want that on my shelf.' Because it says, 'I'm the kind of person who has read this.' The kind of books that says, 'I'm serious and intellectual and historical and race-conscious.'

Jennifer Lee

Person Serious Intellectual Kind

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

Russell Baker

Children Parenting Grow You Try Up

I just try to find ways to help my team win.

Miguel Cabrera

Team Win Help Find Try Just

Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.

Joyce DeWitt

Theatre Desire Hollywood Little Part

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Bob Hope

Age Show Middle Your Starts Around

I guess the reason that I'm a horror fan is that I think it gives people the opportunity to enjoy the feeling of being scared in a safe environment. I think that's why, for all of human history, we've been telling each other scary stories: because it exorcises something that we need to exorcise in a safe place.

Annie Parisse

Opportunity History People Think Why

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

William Shakespeare

Smiles Thief Something Robbed Steals

Until I was about 14, I was a fat boy, or at least I looked like a fat boy. I think that being funny was a bit of a defence mechanism for me, so I ended up being a bit of a joker.

Pippa Evans

Funny Me Think Fat Boy Being Funny

As a child I always steered clear of science fiction, but in the autumn of 1977, the bow-wave of publicity for the first 'Star Wars' movie had already reached me, so I was eager for anything science-fictional.

Philip Reeve

Science Child Me Science Fiction

It takes 25 minutes to recover from a phone call or an e-mail, researchers have found, and yet the average person receives such an interruption every 11 minutes. Which means that we're never caught up; we're always out of breath, running behind.

Pico Iyer

Phone Phone Call Person Never Out

I just don't believe in abortion, period. But I would never take away a woman's right to choose what's good for her body. But I still believe that when you do have an abortion, still inside, you go through a lot of stuff. It tears away at your spirit and your soul. So I don't think people think about that.

Sherri Shepherd

Good Woman Soul People Tears Think