Will Brown
Will Brown
children book writing
I wish I didn't have ever to sign my long name on the cover of a book, and I wish I could write a story that would seem absolutely true to the child who hears it and to myself.
beautiful simplicity way
There is a loving way with words and an unloving way. And it is only with the loving way that the simplicity of language becomes beautiful.
song children stories
Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.
dream children stories
A child's own story is a dream, but a good story is a dream that is true for more than one child.
looks
Everything that anyone would ever look for is usually where they find it.
writing trying speak
We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.
creativity two creation
there seem to be times of reception and times of creation and it is perhaps difficult not to confuse the two.
book storytelling melody
A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling.
stars air noise
Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.
song children childhood
In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet a child's need for quietness is the same today as it has always been--it may even be greater--for quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.
war civil-war mars
Mars is not an aesthetic God.
people misunderstood world
No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.
memories sacrifice people
A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history.
war army slavery
As for the South, it is enough to say that perhaps eighty per cent. of her armies were neither slave-holders, nor had the remotest interest in the institution. No other proof, however, is needed than the undeniable fact that at any period of the war from its beginning to near its close the South could have saved slavery by simply laying down its arms and returning to the Union.