If you can’t look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.
ENID BLYTONWriting for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
More Enid Blyton Quotes
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I expect when we grow up, we shall think like them – but let’s hope we remember what it was like to think in the way children do, and understand the boys and the girls that are growing up when we’re men and women.
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Elizabeth. Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas.
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I don’t believe in things like that – fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It’s old-fashioned.’ ‘
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My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.
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The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones.
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Well, you know what grown-ups are,’ said Dinah. ‘They don’t think the same way as we do.
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I do love the beginning of the summer hols,’ said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.’ ‘They go so nice and slowly at first,’ said Anne, his little sister. ‘Then they start to gallop.
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The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before – but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever.
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The children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on.
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Mothers and dogs both had a kind of second sight that made them see into people’s minds and know when anything unusual was going on.
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I’m good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.
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I wonder where you got that idea from? I mean, the idea that it’s feeble to change your mind once it’s made up. That’s a wrong idea, you know.
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Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.
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Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
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Make up your mind about things, by all means – but if something happens to show that you are wrong, then it is feeble not to change your mind,
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