Joan Aiken Quotes

• Los niños leen para aprender: incluso cuando leen fantasía, tonterías, versos ligeros, cómics o lo que viene en los paquetes de cereales, están ampliando su mente todo el tiempo, ampliando su vocabulario, haciendo descubrimientos: todo es nuevo para ellos.

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  Niños, Lectura, Libro

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• Las palabras son como las especias. Demasiadas es peor que pocas.

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  Spices, Few Words, Wise Women

  Joan Aiken (2015). “The Last Slice of Rainbow: And Other Stories”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• Desde el principio de la humanidad, los sacerdotes, los bardos y los curanderos han utilizado las historias como instrumentos mágicos de curación y enseñanza, como medio de ayudar a las personas a aceptar el hecho de que continuamente tienen que enfrentarse a problemas insolubles y realidades insoportables.

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  Teaching, Healing, Mean

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• The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact.

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  Children, Book, Impact

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• As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.

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  Sweet, Writing, Exercise

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• A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing the marvellous idea to paper, does something else of a quite different kind, so as to acquire new and rich experience.

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  Children, Ideas, Doe

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• Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement.

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  Bereavement, Wealth

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• Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.

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  Progress, World, Want

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• since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.

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  Niños, Libro, Vocabulario

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• You may think it odd that there were three men to look after one tiny station, but the people who ran the railway knew that if you left two men together in a lonely place they would quarrel, but if you left three men, two of them could always grumble to each other about the third, and then they would be quite happy.

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  Lonely, Men, Thinking

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• If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to skim over the dull text without bothering to delve into its implications -- which in time will make them prey to propaganda and to assertions based on scanty evidence, or none.

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  Children, Reading, Mean

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