Top Virginia Hamilton Quotes - Quotesmemo.com

Virginia Hamilton Biography

Virginia Esther Hamilton (March 12, 1936 – February 19, 2002) was an African-American children's books author. She wrote 41 books, including M. C. Higgins, the Great (1974), for which she won the U.S. National Book Award in category Children's Books and the Newbery Medal in 1975.

Read about Virginia Hamilton in Wikipedia

Random Authors

Virginia Hamilton Quotes

The meaning of the Street in all ways and at all times is the need for sharing life with others and the search for community.

Community, Inspire, Life, Meaning, Search, Times

For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written. It is the feeling early humans must have experienced when the firelight first overcame the darkness of the cave. It is the communal cooking pot, the Street, all over again. It is our need to know we are not alone.

Cooking, Darkness, Early, Feelings, Humans, Like

The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.

Book, Change, Children, Liberty, Mind

Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us.

Forget, Keep, Library, Save, Who We Are

I can’t explain how it is I keep having new ideas. But one book inevitably follows another. It is my way of exploring the known, the remembered, and the imagined, the literary triad of which all stories are made.

Book, Follows, Ideas, Imagined, Stories

The past moves me and with me, although I remove myself from it. Its light often shines on this night traveler: and when it does, I scribble it down. Whatever pleasure is in it I need pass on. That's happiness. That is who I am.

Happiness, Moving, Night, Past, Pleasure, Remove

You always feel you are not deserving. People who are successful at what they do know what kind of work goes with it, so they are surprised at the praise.

Kind, Know, People, Success, Surprised, Work

To leave a place, you'd best leave everything behind; all your possessions, including memory. Traveling's not as easy as it's made out to be.

Easy, Including, Leave, Memories, Moving, Possessions

For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written.

Affected, Book, Nothing, Reading, Writing, Written

Andrew Pyper

Andrew Pyper

Heinz Wolff

Heinz Wolff

Gunter Grass

Gunter Grass

Albion Woodbury Small

Albion Woodbury Small

Mantak Chia

Mantak Chia

Stephanie Mills

Stephanie Mills

Mary Bono

Mary Bono

Anne, Queen of Great Britain

Anne, Queen of Great Britain

Peggy Lee

Peggy Lee

Samuel Chamberlain

Samuel Chamberlain

Travis Pastrana

Travis Pastrana

Dorotheus of Gaza

Dorotheus of Gaza