Tim Wynne-Jones quotes

“Maybe life is a board game, but I never get to roll the dice.”
-- Tim Wynne-Jones

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“Habit was stronger than emotion.”
-- Tim Wynne-Jones

Source : Tim Wynne-Jones (2010). “The Uninvited”, p.295, Candlewick Press

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“The deep-read is when you get gut-hooked and dragged overboard down and down through the maze of print and find, to your amazement, you can breathe down there after all and there’s a whole other world. I’m talking about the kind of reading when you realize that books are indeed interactive. . . . I’m talking about the kind of deep-read where it isn’t just the plot or the characters that matter, but the words and the way they fit together and the meandering evanescent thoughts you think between the lines: the kind of reading where you are fleetingly aware of your own mind at work.”
-- Tim Wynne-Jones

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“It’s the ability to bring events and characters to a resolution that draws me to writing, especially writing for children. I don’t want to ever be didactic, but if there’s something I do want to say, it’s that you can bring things around. You can make a change. Adult novels are about letting go. Children’s novels are about getting a grip.”
-- Tim Wynne-Jones

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“And maybe getting a grip and letting go are not so dissimilar, when the holding on or the letting go is all part of moving on-getting on with it. Getting on with the difficult and dizzying business of living.”
-- Tim Wynne-Jones

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“Cherry Money Baby is fabulous in every sense of the word! It’s earthy and smart and moving, laugh-out-loud funny, surprising, inventive, suspenseful, and — Oh, Hell — just gorgeously written!”
-- Tim Wynne-Jones

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“It’s the ability to bring events and characters to a resolution that draws me to writing, especially writing for children. I don’t want to ever be didactic, but if there’s something I do want to say, it’s that you can bring things around. You can make a change. Adult novels are about letting go. Children’s novels are about getting a grip.”
-- Tim Wynne-Jones

#Letting Go Quotes #Children Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Thankfully we had a big drive there in the fourth quarter after the fumble to put us up 11, and then the big drive to finish the game.”

“The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc

“You can do as many sprints as you want but there's nothing like playing in a 90-minute soccer game. There's no better way to gain your fitness, in my opinion, than playing in consistent games.”

Source : "Abby Wambach discusses her marriage, sport and future". Interview with Jeff Di Veronica, www.usatoday.com. March 30, 2014.

“Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.”

“You're a trivial part in a trivia game. Now what's your aim? A presidential campaign? Like Ross Perot? He lost it though... But he got a billion in tha bank fo' sho'!”

“This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.”

“The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide...”

“Nobody who was shooting dice wanted to get a dance.”

“Once in a Moscow chess club I saw how two first-category players knocked pieces off the board as they were exchanged, so that the pieces fell onto the floor. It was as if they were playing skittles and not chess!”

“You know a good board when you see one.”