#ra

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#could #feeling #first #first time #given

After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here. ↗

— Walt Disney Company

#pain #rain #sun #life

I had had no art training. ↗

— Dorothy Malone

#had #i #training

Things look one way and then they look another way. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

It all depends on you. If you want it to be different,it will be different. Don't look at the world with your eyes but with your heart. ↗

— Avi

#inspirational

People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol. ↗

— John Mahoney

#america #anymore #because #british #did

I think that together the church has learned a lot, and as we know from our own oversight board, the involvement of our wonderful lay leaders has been a real grace. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#board #church #grace #i #i think

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#always #aspects #be different #because #being

Where do the scenes come from since space and time do not really exist? They come from somewhere, and where is that? Well, that’s the point of the mystery … to experience where somewhere is. I believe it has something to do with quiet and having no expectations. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a very short, simple story that works well is just as exciting to me as any longer and more complex book. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#book #complex #concentration #different #different sort