Quotes About A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

#1. I loved 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.' I read it later as an adult, but I loved 'We Have Always Lived in a Castle.' And that brings you around to 'The Lottery.' You can't pretend - it's a lottery in which you draw a name and people die. That's a short story, but it's such an incredible short story.

Suzanne Collins

#2. 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' by Betty Smith is one of my favorites. Even though it doesn't have any monsters or crazy fantasy in it, it's such a raw story, and I can really relate to the characters. I think it's a beautiful story.

Amandla Stenberg

#3. It's embarrassing to admit how many times I've reread the following: 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,' '1984,' 'Lord of the Flies,' 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,' 'Germinal,' 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle,' and 'A Moveable Feast.'

Suzanne Collins

#4. If I wrote a memoir, it would be like 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.'

Annie Golden

#5. Anything you say may be used against you.

Betty Smith

#6. If you can't write, read.
If you can't read, walk.
Or walk and read, then write.

Joyce Rachelle

#7. You can what you wish to be.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. I could tell you a thousand times,
How much I love you,
It still would not do justice on how much I love you.

Stacey Chillemi

#9. She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it

Betty Smith

#10. A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#11. There's a lot of directing within the stunt coordinator's job.

David Leitch

#12. subscribed to the theory that life consisted of a long string of miseries, tolerated only because the alternative was worse.

Amy Fecteau

#13. I felt as if I'd been spun around fifty times then released into the middle of a circus and told to have fun.

Rick Riordan

#14. The tears stood in her eyes.

Betty Smith

#15. But in their secret hearts, each new that it wasn't all right and would never be all right between them again.

Betty Smith

#16. People looking up at her
at her smooth pretty vivacious face
had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind.

Betty Smith

#17. I was in Nepal and I had watched Oprah Winfrey's show. I had no idea, as a kid in Nepal, who she was, but I remember watching an episode of hers about living your dreams.

Prabal Gurung