Shalon Jackson Quotes & Sayings

A fundamental error in many Christian attacks on Harry Potter has been a narrow, simplistic reading of symbolism. — Travis Prinzi

I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up. — Joss Stone

Being near Tom and Doug at night kept me from having to say to myself I am not afraid whenever I heard a branch snap in the dark or the wind shook so fiercely it seemed something bad was about to happen. But I wasn't out here to keep myself from having to say I am not afraid. I'd come, I'd realized, to stare that fear down, to stare everything down, really
all that I'd done to myself and all that had been done to me. I couldn't do that while tagging along with someone else. — Cheryl Strayed

I think of writing
particularly of writing picture books
as a kind of choreography. A picture book must have pace and movement and pattern. Pictures and text should, together, create the pattern, rather than simply run parallel. — Beatrice Schenk De Regniers

Hopefully, in not a too distant future, we will see a Latino president, and who knows how's that going to happen. It's just a matter of time. — Julian Castro