Beatrix Potter Quotes

How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?

I was a tremendous fan of the original Kenneth Grahame short story, 'The Reluctant Dragon.'

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo

The Tale of Despereaux came at the request of Luke, my friend's then-eight-year-old son, who asked, "Write for me the story of an unlikely hero with exceptionally large ears."

One does not argue about The Wind in the Willows.

I remember him reading 'Sleeping Beauty,' and he would play the score by Tchaikovsky as he read it. We'd also read 'Winnie the Pooh,' and, you know, those probably that he most often read me were 'Beatrix Potter' books, 'The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck' and 'The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle.' I still have at least 15 of them.

My dad liked how January went with Jones. My sisters' names are Jina and Jacey Jones.

You don't want people to think you're just writing stories for children about a pig in a tutu.

I think everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. Everyone has read the book and watched the Disney film and all that.

Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying.

Most of the books I remember from my childhood were Dr. Seuss-type books. They were fun to read, but there wasn't a real story behind them.

All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. / No book ever ends / When it's full of your friends / The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.

Once upon a time there was a young lady who lived in a marsh, and her name was Poison.

Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.

If there’s a magic pony in the story, chances are I’ll read it.

Soon Hansel and Gretel came to a little cottage. When they got quite near, they saw that the little house was made of bread and roofed with cake. The windows were transparent sugar." "There must not have been a very strict building code.

Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time.

The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.

A bit of advice: never read a pop-up book about giraffes.

Sure, I love fairy tales.

I collect names for characters. Names are valuable; they can be your first source of insight into a character.

Russell Brand has announced that he plans to write a series of children's books. First up: 'Horton Hears a Heroin Dealer.'

Ninety percent of the children’s books patronize the child and say there’s a difference between you and me, so you listen to this story. I, for some reason or another, don’t do that. I treat the child as an equal.

Reading is where the wild things are.

It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery.