Occupation: Novelist Birth: April 10, 1934
I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing..
Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in the machine; Read while the dinner cooks;….
The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized..
If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places..
I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language..
[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived..
Only the nonreader fears books..
September 11 We thought we'd outdistanced history Told our children it was nowhere near; Even when history struck Columbine, It didn't happen here. W….
But put two librarians' heads together, and mountains move..
When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair..
Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school..
If you're going to read minds, start with a simple one..
I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody..
I read.. because one life is not enough.
We write by the light of every story we have ever read..
That meant I could come back whenever I could manage it. And she was telling me to go. She knew the decision was too big a load for me to carry by my….
Martin Wilson's What They Always Tell Us hears the voices of the young as they struggle toward adulthood..
Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself..
With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world..
Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep..
Grandma, how old is she?" "Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck..