Paul Fleischman Quotes

I actually went on a vegan diet. So I was nagging myself there. I don't nag other people about it. It was sort of an interesting experiment, and I found it wasn't that hard at all.

- Paul Fleischman

Warming is incontrovertible, so in general, you're going to have more droughts, more fires. So I think events like that are the best thing that could happen for righting our ship and getting us on a safer course.

- Paul Fleischman

Parents should keep 'Eyes Wide Open' next to the 'Kinsey Report' on their shelves.

- Paul Fleischman

I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way.

- Paul Fleischman

I'm a very careful, slow writer, and I think a lot of that comes from the care required to be a hand-printer, where if something isn't spaced out enough, you take little slivers of brass or copper and put them between each letter.

- Paul Fleischman

I grew up in a house that might have had the only front-yard cornfield in all of Los Angeles.

- Paul Fleischman

What could be more exciting when the writing is going well and things are falling into place? It's just like riding a fabulous wave for a surfer. There's no better place to be.

- Paul Fleischman

People don't like to be nagged. When people nag us, we instantly resist, but when the facts force us in that same direction, we instantly adapt.

- Paul Fleischman

The few words of a title are the hardest words for any author to come up with.

- Paul Fleischman

Science explains what nature is doing; money often explains what we're doing.

- Paul Fleischman