Paul Fleischman Quotations

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity.

Mindfulness, as defined by the Buddha, means awareness of incessant change, of arising and vanishing, inside of your own body, which is the ultimate reality of your own life.

The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs living in a million crevices. ... But the garden's greatest benefit, I feel, as not relief to the eyes, but to make the eyes sees our neighbors.

A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. It was a mind-altering drug we took daily.

Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping.

That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a soap opera growing out of the ground. I'd forgotten that tremolo of expectation produced by a tiny forest of sprouts.

A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.

The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.

You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland.