Bill Griffith Quotes

The first book I ever bought for myself was 'One Fish Two Fish' by Dr. Seuss. My favourite page shows two children carrying an enormous glass jar up some stairs in the dark. In the jar is a tusked beflippered creature floating in brine.

In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

As a girl, I sat awestruck at the feet of Harriet Ne, author of 'Tales of Molokai'. It was she who used to say, 'I myself have seen it,' after telling a particularly hair-raising ghost story - a phrase that I borrowed for one of my titles.

Professor Challenger, Conan Doyle's science hero, was a sort of irascible man constantly bellowing at people, so he was a little bit of a departure from both of those stereotypes.

There [in The Kite Runner] certainly are, as is always the case with fiction, autobiographical elements woven through the narrative.

The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.

Remember the White Knight.

I always call him Lewis Carroll Carroll, because he was the first Humbert Humbert.

With "Margaret," I remember clearly it was, you know because I did remember it clearly. I was young. I was young in terms of experience and what did I know about and I had an incredible memory from my own childhood. And so it never occurred to me to write for any other age group. And I thought I'm going to write a book and I'm going to tell the truth.

I think he [composer Joe Raposo] was the first man who kissed me on the cheek.

As soon as I learned what the smell of bacon was, I learned how to make it.

Everybody knows by now that there's a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I'm encouraging anybody who's ever met me, heard me or even seen me, to get in on the action and scribble their own book. You never know, somebody might have a great book in them.

Well, it's my age group, anywhere from, I'd say 30 to 70. The biggest comment I get about the book is how honest it is and that people can relate to my circumstances going across the line. Anybody could learn and deal with this book from reading it.

I saw The Twilight Zone for the first time when I was 12 or 13. I used to stay up late to watch.

Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

I'm a walking record.

The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books.

I remember when I was 14, I went to race in Hungary, and I went to a concert, and they were playing Bob Marley songs, and I thought, "Wow, this guy is so special." It's Marley every time.

... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.

I don't know if kids still read it, I just know that for me - as a boarding school kid - the book had a lot of resonance. It was a well written book. I was honored to play a part in that movie version.

she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice.

A song marks an occasion in my life and that's how I live my life, by songs.