Robert Munsch quotes
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“Clang Clang Rattle Bing Bang, Gonna make my noise all day!”
-- Robert MunschSource : Robert Munsch (2012). “Mortimer: Read-Aloud Edition”, p.7, Open Road Media
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“I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be.”
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“I almost flunked first grade and also the second, third, forth, and fifth; but my younger brother was in the grade behind me and he was a brain and nobody wanted to have me be in the same grade as him, so they kept passing me. I never learned how to spell, graduated from eighth grade counting on my fingers to do simple addition, and in general was not a resounding academic success.”
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“Writing is a bit like swimming. You learn writing by doing it and you learn swimming by doing it. Nobody learns how to swim by reading a book about swimming and nobody learns how to write by reading a book about writing. If you want to learn how to write, write a lot and you will get better at it.”
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“Every author has different ways of writing and what works for one author does not necessarily work for another.”
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“If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up.”
-- Robert MunschSource : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
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“The title is one of the most important things. It is the first thing that people read.”
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“Success is a wonderful addition to my life.”
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“I get up in front of a bunch of kids and say 'Hey, I'm gonna tell you a new story. Who wants to be in a new story?' Well some kid always sticks up their hand and that gives me a name, but it doesn't give me a story. I just say whatever comes to my mind and usually it's not that good. Every once in a while, however, I say something that turns into a really good story.”
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“I get my ideas for books from my own kids and sometimes from other children. Often when I am telling stories I will say: I am going to make up a new story.”
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“People forget what a big issue toilet training is for adults and kids, and it is not fun, especially when you're in a car on the interstate.”
-- Robert MunschSource : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
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“I tell the stories in front of audiences and wait for something to happen. It's similar to a standup comic doing his schtick for an audience.”
-- Robert MunschSource : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
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“Most of my books came from when I was telling stories.”
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“Writers' communities are very helpful to writers because it gives them a way to try out their stuff short of publication.”
-- Robert Munsch
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