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Famous Quotes By Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup. — Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life. — Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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The answers aren't important really ... What's important is- knowing all the questions. — Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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I seemed to have been born reading. — Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell ... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing. — Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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Trick-or-treating is for candy and demonstrations are for things like Peace and Freedom. It's different. — Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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If you try to make your circle closed and exclusively yours, it never grows very much. Only a circle that has lots of room for anybody who needs it has enough spare space to hold any real magic. — Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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We all invite our own devils, and we must exorcise our own. — Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them. — Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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Belonging to a place isn't nearly as necessary as belonging to people you love and who love you and need you. — Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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Teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with ten or eleven years of experience as human beings. It is, I think, a magical time - when so much has been learned, but not yet enough to entirely extinguish the magical reach and freedom of early childhood. — Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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Know all the Questions, but not the Answers
Look for the Different, instead of the Same
Never Walk where there's room for Running
Don't do anything that can't be a Game — Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings. — Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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There was that special smell made up of paper, ink, and dust; the busy hush; the endless luxury of thousands of unread books. Best of all was the eager itch of anticipation as you went out the door with your arms loaded down with books. — Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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Nothing's real unless you want it to be, and anything can be real if you want it to enough; so real doesn't really mean anything. — Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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But now and then, beneath the outer numbness, something stirred, like a living pain waiting for the anesthetic to wear away. — Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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At the age of eight I became, in my own eyes at least, a writer. — Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley. — Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore. I know that many writers for children say they do not write specifically with a child audience in mind ... This isn't true for me. I am very aware of my audience. Sometimes I can almost see them out there reacting as I write. Sometimes I think, 'Oh, you're going to like this part. — Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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Eleven is about the best age for almost anything. — Zilpha Keatley Snyder