A child, when it begins to speak, learns what it is that it knows.

- John Hall Wheelock

It's almost two societies, the living and the dead, and you live with them both.

- John Hall Wheelock

The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the world.

- John Hall Wheelock

Most writers are in a state of gloom a good deal of the time; they need perpetual reassurance.

- John Hall Wheelock