Scholastic Books Quotes & Sayings

I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds. That's really about it - I don't gravitate towards it, I try to move away from it. — Joey Santiago

I had been reading children's books all my life and saw them not as minor amusements but as part of the whole literary mainstream; not as "juveniles" or "kiddie lit," one of the most demeaning terms in the scholastic jargon.
My belief was, and is, that the child's book is a unique and valid art form; a means of dealing with things which cannot be dealt with quite as well in any other way. There is, I'm convinced, no inner, qualitative difference between writing for adults and writing for children. The raw materials are the same for both: the human condition and our response to it. — Lloyd Alexander

The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance. — Thomas More

Life took you right to the edge of where you wanted to go, then turned left. — Lisa Samson

'Doctor Who' is not as literary as 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' is - books have come out, but they are from the television episodes. So there is that difference ... it's more scholastic. — Sylvester McCoy

A true Grandmaster is a person who starts the arts at a very young age and continues it until their body will no longer allows it. Then they still contribute mentally to the art. — Choi Hong Hi

I never wanted to be an actor until about three years ago when I realised it was what I liked doing. — Craig Roberts