Kirby Larson Quotes

Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?

No matter how big his smile or how loud his laugh, you could hear the hurt underneath.

I love visiting new places but am not overly fond of the travel to get to them.

Character is everything, especially these days when that's what publishers are asking for. Make sure that yours have child appeal. Also don't have a huge cast of characters. One or two is best, four, the maximum.

It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.

Our actions make the fragrance of our lives ... Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?

My mama always said piecing quilts is like making friends.' She kept her eyes on the scissors as she cut up a piece of blue ticking. 'Sometimes the more different fabrics - and people - are,' she said, 'the stronger the pattern.'
I looked up at her. She smiled a sad, sweet smile at me. I felt as if she'd looked right into my heart and seen all my warts and flaws, and held her own heart out to me anyway.

Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim's chickens, with no way to fly that high.

Postscript: H - Bring warm clothes and a cat

I think if you find your passion and you go with it you are rewarded.

If I ruled supreme, there would be big problems.

The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa

Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be poetic. They must be written so the worst actress can read with comfort and expression.

It seems unfair not to give credit where credit is due simply because one lacks a certain number of candles on one's birthday cake.

Hon, when someone's a true friend, there's no need to miss 'em." She patted her chest. "'Cause they're always right here.

I am the richest person alive (or at least one of!) because I get to do what I love as a career.

Well, before writing became all-consuming, I was a quilter, like Hattie and Perilee. I don't do that anymore, but I do knit, garden and watch the birds in my backyard. I also take lots of walks, do yoga and talk my husband into taking me out to dinner as often as possible.

Sometimes, lying out on Aunt Ivy and Uncle Holt's back lawn, it'd felt as if I could stretch out my arms and my fingertips and rake them across the underside of the heavens and end up with a fistful of stars.

I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience.

My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.

Hattie.' Grace patted my arm. 'My cows sing better than you do.

There should be fireworks at last, when a dream dies.

I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.