I have a transgender nephew on my father’s side of the family. So I’m extremely aware of how important it is to support and advocate for young people who are experiencing that in their lives. Emma Walton Hamilton Read Quote
I have a picture of me sitting on the step of a brownstone stoop with my mom and all the Muppets around us. And Perry Como, for some reason. Emma Walton Hamilton Read Quote
I was able to hide a lot behind ‘Walton,’ and found that to be quite useful. Emma Walton Hamilton Read Quote
I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books. Emma Walton Hamilton Read Quote
So often we think, well, kids learn to read at school, I don’t have to be responsible for that. But in fact they learn to love reading at home, and therefore it’s really important that we as parents preserve the joy of reading by supporting them and reading things that speak to their hearts, books that they love. Emma Walton Hamilton Read Quote
At a time when there is so much tension in the world – between cultures, and nations, and so forth – there is nothing that levels the playing field more than the arts. Emma Walton Hamilton Read Quote
The arts are the most uniquely suited to provide young people with critical-thinking skills, problem-solving, teamwork and collaboration, empathy and tolerance and compassion, looking at the other point of views. Emma Walton Hamilton Read Quote
I think I personally, as a writer, read differently knowing how tough it is to write, knowing how challenging it is to articulate it, to express clearly and economically and with focus and with purpose. Emma Walton Hamilton Read Quote
I think writing and reading are completely synergistic; not necessarily in that one has to be a good reader to be a good writer or vice versa, but that they so inform each other. Emma Walton Hamilton Read Quote
With my mother, Julie Andrews Edwards, I’ve authored such children’s books as the ‘Dumpy the Dump Truck’ series, ‘Dragon: Hound of Honor,’ ‘The Great American Mousical,’ ‘Simeon’s Gift’ and ‘Thanks to You: Wisdom from Mother and Child.’ Emma Walton Hamilton Read Quote
