Zilpha Keatley Snyder Quotes
-
We all invite our own devils, and we must exorcise our own.
→ -
It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore. I know that many writers for children say they do not write specifically with a child audience in mind ... This isn't true for me. I am very aware of my audience. Sometimes I can almost see them out there reacting as I write. Sometimes I think, 'Oh, you're going to like this part.
→ -
It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore.
→ -
Nothing's real unless you want it to be, and anything can be real if you want it to enough; so real doesn't really mean anything.
→ -
Eleven would have been the best time. Eleven is just about the best age for almost everything.
→ -
There was that special smell made up of paper, ink, and dust; the busy hush; the endless luxury of thousands of unread books. Best of all was the eager itch of anticipation as you went out the door with your arms loaded down with books.
→ -
Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life.
→ -
If you try to make your circle closed and exclusively yours, it never grows very much. Only a circle that has lots of room for anybody who needs it has enough spare space to hold any real magic.
→ -
Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley.
→ -
Know all the Questions, but not the Answers Look for the Different, instead of the Same Never Walk where there's room for Running Don't do anything that can't be a Game
→ -
The answers aren't important really... What's important is- knowing all the questions.
→
Related Authors
-
Susan Cooper Author -
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Writer -
E. L. Konigsburg Writer -
Scott O'Dell Author -
Bette Greene Author -
Avi Author -
Sharon Creech Writer -
Katherine Paterson Author -
Madeleine L'Engle Writer -
Carol Ryrie Brink Author -
Ellen Raskin Writer -
Christopher Paul Curtis Writer -
Jean Craighead George Writer -
Jerry Spinelli Writer -
Karen Cushman Writer -
John Christopher Writer -
Elizabeth George Speare Writer -
Betsy Byars Author -
Gary Paulsen Writer -
Richard Peck Novelist