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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

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Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

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I believe that every one of us here tonight has as clear and vital a vocation as anyone in a religiousorder. We have the vocation of keeping alive Mr....more

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I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as educational experts tell us children mus...more

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I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was hopeless at school math and commented wryly on hi...more

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If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a gro...more

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The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

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Our children... have a passionate need for the dimension of transcendence, mysticism, way-outness. We're not offering it to them legitimately. The ten...more

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Jesus was not a theologian. He was a God who told stories.

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Stories, no matter how simple, can be vehicles of truth; can be, in fact, icons. It's no coincidence that Jesus taught almost entirely by telling stor...more

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Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we ...more

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The child is aware of unlimited potential, and this munificence is one of the joys of creativity.Those of use who struggle in our own ways, small or g...more