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David Walliams Quotes

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.

David Walliams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: british
Birth: August 20, 1971

Topics

Children Myself Literature Know Poor

I don't know, examination I guess. And then they put the jump suit back on me again. I went through the compound - I remember somebody shouting, Jim don't let them break you.

Jim Bakker

Me Remember You Back Jump Know

Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organise themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?

Robert M. Pirsig

Struggle Simple Group Why Chemistry

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Stephen Fry

Travel Child Better Christmas First

The Trudie Styler that is spoken of is extremely privileged in life and feels that privilege.

Trudie Styler

Life Privilege Spoken Privileged

If you are close to your parents or a grandparent, you watch as they get old and you learn so much from that, and it makes you want to learn more while you have time.

Shooter Jennings

Time Parents Learn You Want More

I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.

Dennis Eckersley

Attitude Game Always Throw Wanted

In my head, scenes are shot from certain angles; there are camera pans, all of that kind of stuff. Converting those visuals to comic format was mostly a matter of adapting them to the rhythm of paneling.

Chris Wooding

Camera Kind Matter Rhythm Head Shot

What you do once you're beyond the confines of your local lift service can be as limitless as the mountains themselves.

Craig Kelly

Service Mountains You Lift Beyond

On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, it is some consolation that the man most responsible for that terrible morning will not be smiling smugly to himself as satellite TV brings to the leafy boulevards of Abbottabad the somber images of New Yorkers commemorating those who perished in the Twin Towers.

Bobby Ghosh

Morning Anniversary Man Smiling New

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

Anthony Trollope

Honesty Man Slow Political Become

Looking back at it now, any objective account of my life is bound to read like a cross between 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and a travel brochure.

Anne Stevenson

Life Wife Travel Looking Back Bath

Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.

Anne Dudley

Short Doing You Sometimes Way Up