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E. L. Konigsburg Quotes

I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.

E. L. Konigsburg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: February 10, 1930 - April 19, 2013

Topics

People Me Ideas Know Places Things

We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy.

American Flexible Economy Ability

I think women, we are very interesting. We have a lot to say, and sometimes it's frustrating how all the lead parts are for men.

Women Men Think Interesting Say How

Hamlet, that's the only role there is, finally. The only role. After that, you settle down and only do the fun things on stage.

Fun You Down Settle Stage Role

Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers.

Life Family Child Reading My Life

I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously.

Music Guitar Early Seriously Playing

If the javelin had hit me 10cm to the left, it would have punctured my lung, 20cm higher the throat, which would have been the worst-case scenario. Just 1cm higher and it would have hit bone, muscle and tendon and that would have been the end of my sporting career.

Me End Career Muscle Bone Left

People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing, but maybe you should use this actor. And there are the threats, at the end - if you don't do it this way, you'll lose your box office; if you don't do it that way, you'll never get financed again... 35, 40 years of this, you get beat up.

Martin Scorsese

People End Someone You Lose Say

There is no rank in sacrifice.

Josephus Daniels

I moved to Kentish Town from Chelsea in 1983, partly because I had a lot of friends already living in the area and because it took an hour off the journey to my house in Suffolk. It has a villagey feel, and it's still a very mixed community, which I like.

Journey Community Feel Friends House

Small businesses no longer need to feel like a deer in the headlights when considering constructing or updating their Web sites. With ClickThings what you see is what you get, unlike some other competitive Web-based Website building tools.

Building Small Tools Feel You Need

I thought about trying to do a strip. I even tried to do it, but I felt I didn't have the voice. Even though I liked that form, I didn't think I thought in the form of the three panels.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Voice Think Thought Trying Three

Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Women Alone Solitude Find True Will

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