Robert McCloskey quotes

Robert McCloskey quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Because its hard to realize now that that was the end of the great depression, you know. All of a sudden all of this is in front of me and I'm solvent, you know. I'm making some money and I know where my next meal is coming from, and I have a new pair of shoes and that's it.”
-- Robert McCloskey

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“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realise that what you heard is not what I meant.”
-- Robert McCloskey

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“I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world where ducks are crossing the street.”
-- Robert McCloskey

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“That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out!”
-- Robert McCloskey

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“I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”
-- Robert McCloskey

Source : TV Guide, March 31, 1984.

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