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  • Author
  • born 1953
  • 17 quotes

Deborah Wiles, an author (born 1953), is quoted 17 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Perfect, Running, Hero and Running Away.

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A hero can be afraid, but a hero never runs away.

The secret to not being afraid is to understand what scares you

There's always something good to come out of disappointment: Comfort.

Open your arms to life! Let it strut into your heart in all its messy glory!

Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus!

Never talk back to a teacher. Teachers are like God. Actually, teachers are God's boss.

Life is full of surprises, but the biggest one of all is learning what it takes to handle them.

I want young readers to know that to tell their own story is the most important thing they'll ever do.

I'm a goner, a kid who stays up half the night trying to figure out the horror of the world and trying to survive it.

A story shared back and forth is just about the most perfect symbiotic gift. It's a bit like love. No, it's a lot like love.

I would lie in bed at night composing letters to Kennedy and Khrushchev, trying to convince them that they really didn't want to blow up the world. It seemed so simple to me that we just shouldn't hurt each other.

It's an extension of what I do also as part of making my living - I go into schools and work with kids on writing, and I do assembly programs often. Each one is different because each school has different requirements.

There are always scary things happening in the world. There are always wonderful things happening. And it’s up to you to decide how you’re going to approach the world…how you’re going to live in it, and what you’re going to do.

I am always telling students that a story is not just words. You can tell a story with dance or paint or music. Kids and adults are visual learners, auditory learners. There are those of us who need to touch it. Storytelling encompasses so much more than words on paper.

I loved everything about being ten, eleven, and twelve years old, and seem to make most of my heroines and heroes that age so I can reexperience all those pitfalls and wonderful discoveries. It helps me to figure out my own life when I write from that eleven year old place!

Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for centuries. It's like what they say about the perfect picture book. The art and the text stand alone, but together, they create something even better. Kids who need to can grab onto those graphic elements and find their way into the story.

As a children's author, you get to advocate for reading and writing in general, in a way an adult author might not be able to. It's a really interesting dance we do to get literature into the hands of young people and to help them to become literate and become readers; we want them to grow up reading and continue to do so when they're adults.

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