Eve Bunting quotes
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“It is easier to look the other way. But if you do, terrible things can happen.”
-- Eve BuntingSource : "Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust". Book by Eve Bunting, www.theguardian.com. 1980.
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“You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel.”
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“I always have strong feelings when I'm writing a book. Sometimes when I'm writing a book, I even cry when I'm writing. Once I read a quotation that I thought was very true for me, which is: "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."”
-- Eve BuntingSource : Source: www.scholastic.com
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“I love being an author. I love actual writing, and I love communicating with children. And it keeps me young.”
-- Eve BuntingSource : Source: www.scholastic.com
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“I hope never to retire. I write so many because it's the thing I like to do most - to write. And if you write every day, you just naturally get a lot of books.”
-- Eve BuntingSource : Source: www.scholastic.com
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“Titles are very hard. Sometimes a title comes before I start to write the book, but often I finish the book and I still don't have a title. I have to go through the book again and then sometimes I hope a title jumps out at me from what I've written.”
-- Eve BuntingSource : Source: www.scholastic.com
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“I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately I feel like it all the time. I am writing for hours.”
-- Eve BuntingSource : Source: www.scholastic.com
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“I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.”
-- Eve BuntingSource : Source: www.scholastic.com
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Source : A.L. Kennedy (2010). “Original Bliss”, p.74, Random House
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“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
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“Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.”
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“Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.”
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“It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.”
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“Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.”
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