Virginia Euwer Wolff Quotes

rise-to-occassion-which-is-life-virginia-euwer-wolff

some-people-make-bad-bed-they-just-have-to-lie-in-it-virginia-euwer-wolff

you-get-older-you-are-whole-mess-things-new-thoughts-sorry-feelings-big-plans-enormous-doubts-goling-along-hoping-getting-disappointed-over-over-again-no-wonder-i-dont-recognize-

i-tell-you-this-because-books-for-young-readers-are-often-written-about-that-moment-moment-fork-the-moment-old-man-cannot-return-to-virginia-euwer-wolff

i-sure-would-like-to-get-kissed-how-would-that-feel-on-my-mouth-how-different-would-i-be-after-changed-climate-down-in-my-insides-virginia-euwer-wolff

shakespeare-had-found-language-for-agony-living-with-ones-own-mistakes-there-were-words-for-finding-yourself-isolated-with-your-failures-phrases-for-discovering-that-you-were-wro

no-one-writes-as-slowly-as-i-do-im-convinced-its-hard-for-me-i-learn-slowly-i-make-decisions-at-snails-pace

were-mixed-up-about-religion-in-this-culture-we-say-pledge-allegiance-under-god-indivisible-but-theres-no-prayer-in-schools-i-would-be-untethered-without-my-personal-faith-i-woul

i-grew-up-in-rural-oregon-in-log-house-with-bark-left-on-inside-out-we-had-no-electricity-massive-stone-fireplace-grand-piano-tons-books

as-authors-evolve-try-to-trace-precedents-that-have-shaped-their-work-it-sometimes-becomes-matter-identifying-shadowy-figure-in-back-row-mental-photograph-grabbing-at-tail-memory

after-clearing-land-planting-orchard-building-house-barn-surviving-great-depression-our-father-died-suddenly-one-winter-night-when-we-were-small-leaving-us-to-learn-about-loss-be

my-mother-had-no-idea-that-her-daughter-would-turn-out-to-be-writer-but-she-would-not-let-me-go-through-day-my-childhood-without-music

its-true-that-i-had-bucolic-truly-peaceful-childhood-growing-up-in-house-next-to-our-familys-orchard-we-had-lot-books-art-but-no-electricity-until-i-was-eight-years-old-since-the

reviewers-have-called-my-books-novels-in-verse-i-think-them-as-written-in-prose-but-i-do-use-stanzas-stanza-means-room-in-latin-i-wanted-there-to-be-room-breathing-opportunities-

ive-followed-brenda-bowen-as-shes-moved-from-henry-holt-to-scholastic-to-simon-schuster-to-hyperion-to-harpercollins-i-have-complete-confidence-that-brenda-always-knows-right-que

most-people-i-know-dont-even-realize-im-award-winning-author-but-i-have-gotten-many-opportunities-to-travel-to-places-id-never-have-visited-otherwise

i-work-early-in-morning-before-my-nasty-critic-gets-up-he-rises-about-noon-by-then-ive-put-in-much-days-work

the-teenage-years-are-years-to-examine-faith-need-to-be-independent-need-to-be-anchored-who-made-all-this-and-what-do-i-have-to-do-with-it