Top 17 Zilpha Keatley Snyder Quotes
#2. 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
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
#3. 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.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
#5. I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
#6. Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
#7. Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
#8. Belonging to a place isn't nearly as necessary as belonging to people you love and who love you and need you.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
#10. The answers aren't important really ... What's important is- knowing all the questions.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
#11. Trick-or-treating is for candy and demonstrations are for things like Peace and Freedom. It's different.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
#12. 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.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
#13. But now and then, beneath the outer numbness, something stirred, like a living pain waiting for the anesthetic to wear away.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
#14. 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.
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#15. Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
#16. There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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