Witch Of Blackbird Pond Quotes

#1. I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when I was twelve or something. I was reading The Witch of Blackbird Pond.

Leni Zumas

#2. Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget how it felt to read those books. I want to write books with the same power to transport readers into another time and place.

Jennifer Armstrong

#3. Emerson said: Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him.

Dale Carnegie

#4. Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.

Alexander Theroux

#5. What you want let it go., if it is truly yours, it will come back to you.

Debasish Mridha

#6. Somebody once asked me what had attracted me to National Socialism. I replied without a shadow of hesitation: 'Its beauty.'

Savitri Devi

#7. She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.

Elizabeth George Speare

#8. I have a long-lasting gratitude and trust for what UNICEF does.

Audrey Hepburn

#9. Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.

Oswald Chambers