Top 43 Euwer Quotes
#1. I grew up in rural Oregon in a log house with bark left on inside and out. We had no electricity, a massive stone fireplace, a grand piano, and tons of books.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#2. Reviewers have called my books 'novels in verse.' I think of them as written in prose, but I do use stanzas. Stanza means 'room' in Latin, and I wanted there to be 'room' - breathing opportunities to receive thoughts and have time to come out of them before starting again at the left margin.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#3. As authors evolve and try to trace the precedents that have shaped their work, it sometimes becomes a matter of identifying the shadowy figure in the back row of the mental photograph, or of grabbing at the tail of a memory that's just slipping out the window into thin air.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#4. I sure would like to get kissed.
How would that feel on my mouth,
How different would I be after,
a changed climate down in my insides?
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#5. We can have peace and brotherly love by accepting our responsibility to preserve freedom.
Ronald Reagan
#6. Some cats are blind and stone deafdeaf some. But ain't no cat wuz ever dumb.
Anthony Euwer
#7. No one writes as slowly as I do, I'm convinced. It's so hard for me. I learn slowly; I make decisions at a snail's pace.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#8. I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork. The moment the old man cannot return to.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#9. How was the Seelie Queen?"
"Same as usual."
"Raging bitch, then?"
"Pretty much.
Cassandra Clare
#10. We will work as a group, we need to be a real team, that is the only way to go far
Francesco Totti
#12. After clearing the land, planting the orchard, building the house and barn, and surviving the Great Depression, our father died suddenly one winter night when we were small, leaving us to learn about loss before we even knew its name.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#13. Most people I know don't even realize I'm an award-winning author, but I have gotten many opportunities to travel to places I'd never have visited otherwise.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#14. Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction - so we are told.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#15. Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.
Andrew Sullivan
#16. The teenage years are the years to examine faith - the need to be independent and the need to be anchored. Who made all this? And what do I have to do with it?
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#17. I work early in the morning, before my nasty critic gets up - he rises about noon. By then, I've put in much of a day's work.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#18. It's true that I had a bucolic, truly peaceful childhood, growing up in a house next to our family's orchard. We had a lot of books and art, but no electricity until I was eight years old. Since then, I have seen a lot of inner-city life, though.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#19. If you want something to grow and be so beautiful you could have a nice day just from looking at it, you have to wait.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#20. You get older and you are a whole mess of things, new thoughts, sorry feelings, big plans, enormous doubts, goling along hoping and getting disappointed, over and over again, no wonder I don't recognize my little crayon picture. It appears to be me and it is and it is not.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#21. No matter how grouchy you're feeling,
You'll find the smile more or less healing.
It grows in a wreath
All around the front teeth -
Thus preserving the face from congealing.
Anthony Euwer
#22. Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.
Karl Kraus
#23. Shakespeare had found language for the agony of living with one's own mistakes. There were words for finding yourself isolated with your failures. Phrases for discovering that you were wrong, all, all wrong, wrong, wrong.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#24. It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose subject matter is completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection, reveals a good deal about its owner.
Anne Fadiman
#25. Questions inspire Curiosity
Manu
#28. We're so mixed up about religion in this culture. We say the Pledge of Allegiance, 'under God indivisible,' but there's no prayer in the schools. I would be so untethered without my personal faith. I wouldn't be able to go through a day - but that's my own experience.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#29. And I keep on marching as if this is the way a Christian woman is supposed to live, as if this is the call on my life, as if this is all there is.
Lysa TerKeurst
#30. You ever laughed so hard
nobody in the world could hurt you for a minute,
no matter what they tried to do to you?
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#31. Living with thieves, it would be a matter of moments before they picked the lock, but she certainly was not going to make it easy for them.
M.L. Chesley
#32. I didn't work for any newspapers in college, never worked for any newspaper before 'The Washington Post'.
Michael Dirda
#33. One of the people on my Mom's Council,
he used to be a boxer.
My Mom always says he always says Get up on the 1.
You don't want them to count to 2
'cause then it's easy to count 3
while you go on being down. Always
Get up on the 1.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#34. My face I don't mind it,
Because I'm behind it
'Tis the folks in the front that I jar.
Anthony Euwer
#35. My mother had no idea that her daughter would turn out to be a writer, but she would not let me go through a day of my childhood without music.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#36. I've followed Brenda Bowen as she's moved from Henry Holt to Scholastic to Simon and Schuster to Hyperion and to HarperCollins. I have complete confidence that Brenda always knows the right questions to ask. I'm not sure another editor would be able to do that.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#37. A good book is never finished - -it goes on whispering to you from the wall.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#38. And as a writer, your self-worth is literally based on the last thing you wrote.
Amy Winehouse
#39. ...and from here I realized, with the deepest sense of my being, that we can erect and dismantle the great walls of the world, but we will only truly survive as a species when we dedicate ourselves to removing the walls from within.
Dawn Kohler
#40. He could add something to the list of things you weren't supposed to do. Don't get hurt, don't get dirty, don't get drunk, don't get scared, don't count on it. You ended up doing all of them.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#41. My name is Celaena Sardothien, and I will not be afraid.
Sarah J. Maas
#42. We had principles in mathematics that were granted to be absolute in mathematics for over 800 years, but new science has gotten rid of those absolutism, gotten forward other different logics of looking at mathematics, and sort of turned the way we look at it as a science altogether after 800 years.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
#43. How many neighbors ignoring Jolly for her ignorance and bad luck could go down on their knees and save their kid from choking to death this afternoon while the world was going on outside in the sunshine?
Virginia Euwer Wolff
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