I love drums and still play frequently.
The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real.
Writing a story is like going down a path in the woods. You follow the path. You don't worry about getting lost. You just go.
A children's book is the perfect place where young readers can understand the world because they can take a deep breath and look at it and imagine and contemplate while they're looking at.
I would like teachers to look deep because sometimes kids do have a faade that they put up because they feel vulnerable. Their creative truth may not be ready for their friends to see.
When I was little, I loved books that gave me lots of detail so that I felt like I could be transported to this other place, or, in the case of an illustration, I felt like I could walk into the page.
I like to pretend that each book is my first one and last one, because it takes a tremendous amount of energy to do a book.
The most fruitful and the most joy-filled Christians are the most pruned Christians.
Lockheed! You found me! You are the best X-Dragon ever.
No one attached to the traditional image of authoritarian patriarchy could imagine the consternation men endure. They have suffered an unexpected blow to the emotional quality of their lives. Its gravity has not been calculated. They have far fewer reliable links than women to the classic currents of family life. They are alienated not only, as Marx said, from the means of production but also from the means of reproduction.
As the cancellation of the German Grand Prix indicates, Germany is a terrible market for Formula One.