Top 22 Susan Campbell Bartoletti Quotes
#1. If we send industrialists to jail, we would be discouraging investment.
Salman Khurshid
#3. 'Between Shades of Gray' is a story of astonishing force. I feel grateful for a writer like Ruta Sepetys who bravely tells the hard story of what happens to the innocent when world leaders and their minions choose hate and oppression. Beautiful and unforgettable.
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
#4. It is a mistake to tell students that their classroom is a democracy- it cannot and never will be. But children need to learn how to participate in a community and to prepare themselves for democratic citizenship.
Karen Bohlin
#5. Born a slave, Harriet Tubman was determined not to remain one. She escaped from her owners in Maryland on the Underground Railroad in 1849 and then fearlessly returned thirteen times to help guide family members and others to freedom as the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad.
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
#6. When I create a character, it happens in layers. The more I write and revise, the better I understand the characters.
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
#7. To be a good researcher is to be a good detective, and I enjoy ferreting out tidbits of information. For a diary book like 'A Coal Miner's Bride,' newspapers come in handy for small everyday details such as weather reports.
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
#8. For 'The Journal of Finn Reardon,' I traveled to New York City and walked the streets where Finn and his friends would have lived, worked, and played. I visited the Tenement Museum on Orchard Street and toured an actual flat in which families like Finn's might have lived.
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
#9. You need a strong sense of 'otherness' to be able to create in your life.
Amos Lee
#10. I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.
Jock Sturges
#11. Both types of books - fiction and nonfiction - are a search for story. As a writer and a reader, there's nothing I crave more than a good story!
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
#12. I never intended to be a teacher, but once I started teaching, I found that junior high kids are easy to get hooked on, and I stayed for nearly twenty years.
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
#13. For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.
Aristotle.
#14. Kate," Lucern interrupted.
"What?" she asked warily.
"I do not need blood." He tugged her off balance and into his lap. "All I need is you.
Lynsay Sands
#15. I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.
Nancy Pelosi
#16. For me, I've always believed that there was a God. I've always believed that God created the heavens and earth - so, for me it's not a huge leap from there to intelligent design.
Ben Stein
#17. Then in a fraction of a second, I realized that these sportsmen were not anyone's enemies.
Bill Toomey
#18. Only a reader can become a writer. Develop a lively intellect and the ability to become interested in anything, no matter how mundane it might seem at first. Look for the story. Develop an eye for detail. Feed your mind and your brain: learn as much as you can about everything you can.
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
#20. Over the years, my students influenced me greatly, and I've learned many lessons from them. I have an immense amount of respect for them, and I think that respect for your audience is the foremost requirement for anyone who wants to write.
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
#21. Abortion is not an issue with the American people. It is a figment of your imagination if you think that this is an issue that is talked about a lot.
Dan Quayle
#22. By nature, human beings search for ways to make sense and meaning out of their lives and their world. One way that we make meaning is through the telling of our stories. Stories connect us, teach us, and warn us never to forget.
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
