UK Childrens Books - A directory of authors, illustrators, publishers and others connected with the world of UK childrens books.
ACHUKA - Offers book reviews and author interviews along with news, features and photos. Includes guides for parents and teachers.
The Federation of Children's Book Groups - Network of groups around the United Kingdom that organize story-telling and other activities. Information about membership, annual conference, and the groups.
The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators: British Isles - Professional organization dedicated to serving the people who write, illustrate, or share a vital interest in children's literature. Membership information, newsletter sample, calendar of events, and information about critique groups.
Young Writer Online - Not for profit UK charity who publish an international magazine for young people writing fiction and non-fiction, prose and poetry. Writing features, tips and competitions. Paper edition suspended.
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Children's Literature To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Children's Literature
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Children's Literature I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Children's Literature
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Children's Literature My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Children's Literature
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Children's Literature Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Children's Literature
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Children's Literature Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Children's Literature
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Children's Literature Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Children's Literature
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Children's Literature When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Children's Literature
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Children's Literature To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Children's Literature
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Children's Literature "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Children's Literature
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Children's Literature "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Children's Literature
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Children's Literature Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Children's Literature
