Zilpha Keatley Quotes

#1. 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

#2. A baby is a flower of hope, a song of eternity, and a promise of love and beauty of humanity.

Debasish Mridha

#3. We all invite our own devils, and we must exorcise our own.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

#4. 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

#5. I'm very monogamous.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#6. When I was first sent from H.M.S. King Alfred to be interviewed by Goodeve in the Admiralty, I was furious. The War seemed to me, in June of 1940, to be desperately serious, and England in imminent peril of invasion.

Nevil Shute

#7. I once in a while cheat and have a little ice cream, and then I kind of blame myself.

David H. Murdock

#8. Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

#9. 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.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

#10. But now and then, beneath the outer numbness, something stirred, like a living pain waiting for the anesthetic to wear away.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

#11. A problem-solving mind focuses on keeping the end in mind, to solve PROBLEMS in optimal ways.

Pearl Zhu

#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. Trick-or-treating is for candy and demonstrations are for things like Peace and Freedom. It's different.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

#14. The answers aren't important really ... What's important is- knowing all the questions.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

#15. Eleven is about the best age for almost anything.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

#16. I'm so picky. People hate going to the movies with me.

Margaret Murray

#17. 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

#18. Let the standard of everybody's mind be raised to the heights of his own inner glory and then man will feel for himself the greatness of the higher values of life and would be tempted to bring them down into practical life and live them.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#19. Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

#20. 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

#21. I seemed to have been born reading.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

#22. Being brave doesn't mean never being afraid, you know. It means going for it anyway because you know it's the right thing to do.

Aimee Carter

#23. Leo had wanted to paint a giant message on the bottom of the hull-WASSUP? with a smiley-face-but Annabeth had vetoed the idea.

Rick Riordan

#24. Massive shift from presentation to participation ... people want to be part of to be part of the conversation

Roy Sekoff

#25. Keeping our kids engaged and in school must become a national priority.

Cedric Richmond

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. At the age of eight I became, in my own eyes at least, a writer.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

#29. It was the class and dignity which he led his life that made him part of all of us. I will forever treasure the close friendship we shared over the years.

George Steinbrenner