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Jill Paton Walsh Quotes

My grandfather had a proper bookcase of egghead books, and he gave them to me in alphabetical order. So we moved from Aeschylus to the Brontas, and I can still remember the great relief of going from the dipus cycle to Jane Eyre Picture Quote #1

If you want to express yourself, you need the services of a lover or a psychiatrist; if you want to express a book, you might conceivably manage it Picture Quote #1

There is nothing more important than writing well for the young, if literature is to have a continuance ... They will inherit the earth; and nothing that we value will endure in the world unless they can be persuaded to value it too Picture Quote #1

I worked for many years as a writer for children and then wrote two adult novels of the kind they call ‘literary’ without any very great disturbance to this kind of life. Then, something went wrong. My third adult novel was rejected by the publisher of the first two. And I could not understand the criticism offered Picture Quote #1

The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life... and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales Picture Quote #1

There is nothing more important than writing well for the young, if literature is to have a continuance... They will inherit the earth; and nothing that we value will endure in the world unless they can be persuaded to value it too Picture Quote #1

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If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself Picture Quote #1

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My grandfather had a proper bookcase of egghead books, and he gave them to me in alphabetical order. So we moved from Aeschylus to the Brontas, and I can still remember the great relief of going from the dipus cycle to Jane Eyre. (Jill Paton Walsh Quotes) If you want to express yourself, you need the services of a lover or a psychiatrist; if you want to express a book, you might conceivably manage it. (Jill Paton Walsh Quotes) There is nothing more important than writing well for the young, if literature is to have a continuance ... They will inherit the earth; and nothing that we value will endure in the world unless they can be persuaded to value it too. (Jill Paton Walsh Quotes) I worked for many years as a writer for children and then wrote two adult novels of the kind they call ‘literary’ without any very great disturbance to this kind of life. Then, something went wrong. My third adult novel was rejected by the publisher of the first two. And I could not understand the criticism offered. (Jill Paton Walsh Quotes) The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life... and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales (Jill Paton Walsh Quotes) There is nothing more important than writing well for the young, if literature is to have a continuance... They will inherit the earth; and nothing that we value will endure in the world unless they can be persuaded to value it too (Jill Paton Walsh Quotes) If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself (Jill Paton Walsh Quotes)