The most beautiful springs are those that come after the most horrible winters!
I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me.
He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be art, the object of children's books is to whip the little rascals into shape.
I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will I neglect to plant that stubborn seed of hope that has enabled our race to outlast wars and famines and the destruction of death.
Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August.
the reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand one more blasted day.
Still, I kept writing. I had no guarantee that I would someday win awards for writing. Heavens, the only person during that time who seemed to think I could write something worth publishing was my loyal husband. But I always remembered the professor from graduate school who urged me to write and who recommended me for that first writing assignment in 1964. When I protested to Sara Little that I didn't want to add another mediocre writer to the world, she gently reminded me that if I didn't dare mediocrity, I would never write anything at all.
All entertainment is education in some way, many times more effective than schools because of the appeal to the emotions rather than to the intellect.
Until the Second World War, it was unthinkable for a married woman of the working or middle class to disgrace her husband by working after marriage, because her employment indicated that he was a poor provider
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
The pyjamas have cats on them. I am informed that these cats belong to an organisation called Hello Kitty.