Hilary McKay Quote

Cubism is a Cathedral of shit.

The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

I do not much trust the man who cares solely to inspire - he does not really inspire me - only the man who cares mostly to tell the truth, whatever that may do. For when the man who cares to tell the...

I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.

Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our fa...

With homework, school prepares students for overtime. With reports, it prepares them for payday.

It sounds so nerdy and pathetic, but what I always do on Sunday afternoon is bring my inbox down to zero, which is so sad. But e-mail has become like homework for adults. I'll have 141 messages from p...

Okay, write that down, Hermoine said to Ron, pushing his essay and a sheet covered in her own writing back to Ron, and then copy out this conclusion that I've written for you.Hermoine, you are honestl...

Our car would've burned up too, but Michael, who is only twelve, got in it and backed it away. I climbed in with him and noticed some of my school books in the car, so I took them out and threw them i...