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Top 10 Joan Aiken Quotes (2025 Update)

Joan Aiken Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

Joan Aiken Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

Joan Aiken Quote: “Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.”

3. “Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.”

Joan Aiken Quote: “Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement.”

4. “Sudden wealth was the great insulator, second only to sudden bereavement.”

Joan Aiken Quote: “Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It’s a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.”

5. “Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It’s a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.”

Joan Aiken Quote: “The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact.”

6. “The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact.”

Joan Aiken Quote: “Children read to learn – even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries – it is all new to them.”

7. “Children read to learn – even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries – it is all new to them.”

Joan Aiken Quote: “As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.”

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

Joan Aiken Quote: “Trees are swayed by winds, men by words.”

9. “Trees are swayed by winds, men by words.”

Joan Aiken Quote: “No moral to this story, you will be saying, and I am afraid it is true.”

10. “No moral to this story, you will be saying, and I am afraid it is true.”

Joan Aiken Quote: “Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It’s a way of making progress.”

11. “Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It’s a way of making progress.”

Joan Aiken Quote: “If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way.”

12. “If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way.”

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