Alan Alexander Milne Quotes

I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.

No sensible author wants anything but praise.

War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.

A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.

I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

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When I listen to 'Nevermind,' I hate the production, but there's something about it that almost makes me cry at times.

Fantasy is fantasy. It's fiction. It's not meant to be a textbook. I don't believe in letting research overwhelm the fiction. That's a danger of science fiction in particular, as opposed to fantasy. A lot of writers forget that what they're doing is supposed to be art.

I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'

I think it's fine when the mayor of the biggest city in Russia consults the president.

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