The Mixed Up Files Of Mrs Frankweiler Quotes & Sayings

Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket. — Isaac Asimov

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is. — Patricia Hampl

Iconic clothing has been secularized ... A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative colour and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent. — Angela Carter

Besides I think it's good to change the place where one sleeps from time to time. I believe it gives one more interesting dreams. — Donna Tartt

The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force which instituted the repression and maintains it is perceived as resistance during the work of analysis. — Sigmund Freud

I'm not really heaven material anyway, chickie babe. Sign me up for your team — Wendy Higgins

I always thought I was an extrovert until I became a theatre major. Then I realised I just didn't like silence. — Cora Carmack

Suggestions? Put it aside for a few days, or longer, do other things, try not to think about it. Then sit down and read it (printouts are best I find, but that's just me) as if you've never seen it before. Start at the beginning. Scribble on the manuscript as you go if you see anything you want to change. And often, when you get to the end you'll be both enthusiastic about it and know what the next few words are. And you do it all one word at a time. — Neil Gaiman

After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people. — E.L. Konigsburg

Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me. — LaToya Jackson

It's really nice to be able to do something that you've never done. I think that's the gift of being an actor because I get to play a cop, a racist cop and I've never done that before. It's nice to inhabit these other worlds especially when you get to work with great actors. — Matt Dillon