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Zilpha Keatley Snyder Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: May 11, 1927 - October 7, 2014

Topics

Childhood Habit Writing Building

I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty.

Jimmy Dean

Money Me Texas Thought Yesterday

I've done a lot of Broadway plays, and I'm fortunate they've all been so successful.

John Benjamin Hickey

Done Successful Fortunate Been Plays

After finishing my undergraduate work at the University of Iowa, where I took creative writing classes taught by Writer's Workshop students, I applied to half a dozen MFA writing programs.

Andrew Shaffer

Work Creative Writing Finishing Half

I thought I was going to be an actor. I liked entertaining. I was pretty much tap dancing for attention from a very early age. My family was kind of musical, and there were people in the circus next door and actors across the road. I just enjoyed messing around with music growing up, but I really thought I was going to be an actor.

Sia

Family Music Age People Door Road

Mr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly.

Robert Brady

River Handle Million Speaker Cargo

In a series of articles beginning on Oct. 2, 1966, I wrote about the long-forgotten history of the Liberty Tree. To call attention to how obscure the site had become, I interviewed waitresses at the Essex Delicatessen below the plaque on Washington Street. None knew what the Liberty Tree was.

Ronald Kessler

History Tree Beginning Attention

I enjoy, in the summer, getting back to writing in my own voice.

Mike O'Brien

Writing Voice Enjoy Back Summer Own

I'm a self-taught landscape gardener; it's a real passion of mine. It's what I do in my spare time because trees don't ask questions!

Mira Nair

Passion Time Trees Questions Real

In my day-to-day, I do a bit of yoga, I go biking, I read, I watch shows, I go to music concerts.

Lizzie Brochere

Music Go Watch Read Concerts Yoga

I gathered that those two Big-shot Boys, Joe + Fletcher, just was afraid to let me sing, thinking maybe I'd sort of ruin their reputations with their musical public. They not knowing that I had been singing all of my life. In churches, etc. I had one of the finest All Boys Quartets that ever walked the streets of New Orleans.

Louis Armstrong

Life Me Singing Thinking My Life

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Coco Chanel

Dress Elegance New Does Putting

My first preference is Bollywood and will always be.

Ali Fazal

Will First Always Preference