Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem magical. In her holiday world, nobody ever goes to school, though all the kids know their English history, Greek myths, and classic tales of derring-do.
Michael Dirda0
Make quotes image
Choose quotes background image
Choose quotes font
Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem mag
Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem mag
Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem mag
Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem mag
Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem mag
Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem mag
Choose fonts color
Sign in
for comment.
Categories
- Quotes and aphorisms Know
- Quotes and aphorisms Books
- Quotes and aphorisms Even
- Quotes and aphorisms Her
- Quotes and aphorisms Goes
- Quotes and aphorisms School
- Quotes and aphorisms World
- Quotes and aphorisms Ever
- Quotes and aphorisms Most
- Quotes and aphorisms Children
- Quotes and aphorisms Nobody
- Quotes and aphorisms Seem
- Quotes and aphorisms History
- Quotes and aphorisms Classic
- Quotes and aphorisms English
- Quotes and aphorisms Though
- Quotes and aphorisms Kids
- Quotes and aphorisms Realistic
- Quotes and aphorisms Somehow
- Quotes and aphorisms Magical
- Quotes and aphorisms Greek
- Quotes and aphorisms Tales
- Quotes and aphorisms Holiday
- Quotes and aphorisms Myths
- Quotes and aphorisms Fantasies
- Michael Dirda quotes and aphorisms
Next quotes
Michael Dirda:
It's a sad commentary on our time - to use a phrase much favored by my late father - that people inJennifer McMahon:
I have a friend who calls me the queen of the nightmares because I've always had really bad nightmaJennifer McMahon:
All my life, I had this idea that if I could unravel the mystery that was my mother, then I could hJennifer McMahon:
I think we all have a kind of dark side, and that's what keeps life - and characters - interesting.Jennifer McMahon:
Some people say, 'Write what you know.' My thing is, 'Write what scares you.'Jennifer McMahon:
Although in my life the level of loss has never reached the extremes it does in 'The Winter People,Jennifer McMahon:
If there was a way to bring someone back, would you do it, no matter what the consequences might beJennifer McMahon:
I think of setting as almost a character of its own, influencing the other characters in ways they'Jennifer McMahon:
I absolutely love writing about the things that scare me, the things that keep me up at night. I doJennifer McMahon:
My grandmother was a psychiatrist and possibly the ultimate of all skeptics. But even she couldn't