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True simplicity is elegant.
Indecisiveness wears a person out.
Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts?
There's something nice and safe about having money.
I've been the oldest child since before you were born
Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.
Sometimes we even have to risk making fools of ourselves.
Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender
Biding one's time is a very different thing from patience.
It often takes more courage to be a passenger than a driver.
Going to school- picking an apple Getting an education- eating it
Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.
Never have a long conversation with anyone who says "between you and I.
Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy.
Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.
Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.
When you hug someone, you learn something else about them. An important something else.
Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.
There were times in school when a person had to do things fast, cheap, and without character.
Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?
I think most of us are outsiders. And I think that's good because it makes you question things.
I don't think there is any feeling I like more than the one that someone is glad to see me. —Connor Kane
It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.
The eyes are the windows of the soul.... If someone was to look into your eyes, what would you want them to see?
Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.
How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence.
Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts.
I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.
Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.
By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.
A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.
Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents.
Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.
Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.
Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.
Nathan, how can you stand playing the same piece over and over again?" And Grandpa Nate answered, "Why don't you ask me how I can stand making love to the same woman over and over again?
I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.
Because after a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret us no fun. And although you dont want others to know what the secret is, you want them to at least know you have one.
...just because I don't have on a silly black costume and carry a silly broom and wear a silly black hat, doesn't mean that I'm not a witch. I'm a witch all the time and not just on Halloween.
I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o'clock.
Lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that.
Finish. The difference between being a writer and being a person of talent is the discipline it takes to apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair and finish. Don't talk about doing it. Do it. Finish.
Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end, and I know some important incidents along the way.
After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
Kids want acceptance from their peers, but in two different, opposing ways: They want to be like everyone else and they want to be different from everyone else. So the question is: How do you reconcile these opposing longings?
I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her hair. I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing the halo the sunlight made of her hair. Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts.
Every job in the world has some built-in boredom. No man can stay excited about something every minute he is doing it. Routine is as necessary to life as water is to beer; it is the base that holds the flavors and spices together.
I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.