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Newbery Quotes & Sayings

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I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin romance! — K.A. Applegate

An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion. — Garrett Hardin

My technique, starting with a quick outline in pencil, is designed to record first impressions, with no time for second thoughts. — John Newbery

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art. — Lucian Freud

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle. — Tom Shadyac

The three adventurers were overcome by that delicious weariness which suddenly overtakes one at the end of an outdoor day. — Carol Ryrie Brink

When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I'll have a book. — Betsy Byars

I try not to handle the foreign subjects with my English techniques and preconceptions, but to paint Sydney in Sydney and Tangier in Tangier. — John Newbery

It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is. — Neil Gaiman

I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on the road. — Linda Sue Park

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream. — Jorge Luis Borges

Obviously, until you write Fuck It, We're All Going To Die, the Newbery Medal is still going to go to people like me. — Neil Gaiman

But who buries the hatchet
and who buries the bodies?
And who says they're not
the same thing these days? — Ashe Vernon

I'm afraid your literary prizes don't give you any jurisdiction in this particular instance, sir. — Lizzie K. Foley

Mother Nature was dead, only the Father of the Fallocaust remained. — Quil Carter

Stories. They're everywhere ... You never know where they start and you certainly don't know where they'll end. If they ever DO end. (Nevermore) — Linda Newbery

After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped. — Kenzaburo Oe

It's true that when anyone dies, the other dead rise up abd die all over again. — Lee Smith

Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion. — Walker Percy