The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact.
Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it. - Joan Aiken
Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.
- Joan Aiken
Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few. - Joan Aiken
Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.
Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to wile away an idle hour; from the beginning of the human race stories have been u… - Joan Aiken
Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to wile away an idle hour; from the beginning of the human race stories have been u…
The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact. - Joan Aiken
As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint. - Joan Aiken
As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.
A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing the marv… - Joan Aiken
A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing the marv…
Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement. - Joan Aiken
Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement.
If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to skim over the dull text w… - Joan Aiken
If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to skim over the dull text w…
since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, … - Joan Aiken
since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, …
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