Margaret Wise Brown Quotes & Sayings

There seem to be times of reception and times of creation and it is perhaps difficult not to confuse the two. — Margaret Wise Brown

Nights and days came and passed
and summer and winter
and the sun and the wind
and the rain.
and it was good to be a little island
a part of the world
and a world of its own
all surrounded by the bright blue sea. — Margaret Wise Brown

Everything that anyone would ever look for is usually where they find it. — Margaret Wise Brown

Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away. So he said to his mother, "I am running away".
"If you run away", said his mother, "I will run after you. For you are my little bunny". — Margaret Wise Brown

A child's own story is a dream, but a good story is a dream that is true for more than one child. — Margaret Wise Brown

He was a funny old dog. He liked strawberries. — Margaret Wise Brown

Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own. — Margaret Wise Brown

We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally. — Margaret Wise Brown

Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere. — Margaret Wise Brown

There is a loving way with words and an unloving way. And it is only with the loving way that the simplicity of language becomes beautiful. — Margaret Wise Brown

A good picture book can almost be whistled ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling. — Margaret Wise Brown

Goodnight nobody, goodnight mush — Margaret Wise Brown

I like dogs
Big dogs
Little dogs
Fat dogs
Doggy dogs
Old dogs
Puppy dogs
I like dogs
A dog that is barking over the hill
A dog that is dreaming very still
A dog that is running wherever he will
I like dogs. — Margaret Wise Brown

When the groundhog casts his shadow
And the small birds sing
And the pussywillows happen
And the sun shines warm
And when the peepers peep
Then it is Spring — Margaret Wise Brown

I won't let anybody get away with anything just because he is little. — Margaret Wise Brown

I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people. — Margaret Wise Brown

If you become a bird and fly away from me, I will be a tree that you come home to. — Margaret Wise Brown

Dear Father, hear and bless thy beasts and singing birds, and guard with tenderness small things that have no words. — Margaret Wise Brown

In the great green room, there was a telephone
And a red balloon
And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon ... — Margaret Wise Brown

I wish I didn't have ever to sign my long name on the cover of a book, and I wish I could write a story that would seem absolutely true to the child who hears it and to myself. — Margaret Wise Brown