Betsy Byars quotes
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“When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I’ll have a book.”
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“the real reason I had wanted to grow up, the main reason I had been willing to even consider becoming an adult, was so I could have as many pets as I wanted.”
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“I think how you look is the most important thing in the world. If you look cute, you are cute; if you look smart, you are smart, and if you don't look like anything, you aren't anything.”
-- Betsy ByarsSource : Betsy Byars (2004). “Summer of the Swans, The (Puffin Modern Classics)”, p.20, Penguin
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“For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.”
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“Writing is like anything - baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get. But it seems to take a longer time to get better at writing than hammering nails.”
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“My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals.”
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“The people you don't know turn out to be exactly like the people you do know, same faults, same everything.”
-- Betsy Byars
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“And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.”
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“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”
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“I never looked at a title and said, I want that.”
Source : "THR's Women in Entertainment 2012: Power 100". www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 05, 2015.
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