Jon Scieszka quotes
-
“There are six Time Warp Trio books that would take a page each to fully praise. And I just thought up twelve more while I was typing this sentence.”
-- Jon Scieszka -
“My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.”
-- Jon Scieszka -
“Just looking at pictures used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no words are now accepted as reading.”
-- Jon Scieszka -
“I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I write. Every book comes to me in a flash of inspiration and takes me about two seconds to finish. The longer books, like the Time Warp Trio novels, take a little longer to write - more like four seconds.”
-- Jon Scieszka -
-
“I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just dont take that into account in schools on those things like required reading lists. Cause that was my experience, say, with my son, who had to read Little House on the Prairie when he was in third grade.”
-- Jon Scieszka -
“For the longest time, you couldnt even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.”
-- Jon Scieszka -
“I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September.”
-- Jon Scieszka -
“Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.”
-- Jon ScieszkaSource : "National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Must Go!" by Jon Scieszka, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
-
-
“Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids reading by badmouthing other entertainment. Admit that TV and games can do things books can't.”
-- Jon ScieszkaSource : "National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Must Go!" by Jon Scieszka, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
-
Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.56, Simon and Schuster
-
Source : Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.74, Macmillan
-
Source : "Q&A – Dallas Roberts (Miles Fiedler)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. August 2010.
-
“Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.”
Source : Alexis De Veaux (1974). “Spirits in the street”
You may also like:
-
Adam Rex
Illustrator -
Andrew Clements
Author -
Beverly Cleary
Author -
Chris Van Allsburg
Illustrator -
Cynthia Rylant
Author -
Dan Gutman
Author -
Dav Pilkey
Author -
David Shannon
Author -
Gordon Korman
Author -
Jack Gantos
Author -
Kate DiCamillo
Writer -
Kevin Henkes
Writer -
Louis Sachar
Writer -
Mac Barnett
Writer -
Mary Pope Osborne
Author -
Megan McDonald
Author -
Mike Lupica
Columnist -
Sharon Creech
Writer -
Tom Angleberger
Author -
Tomie dePaola
Writer