The past moves me and with me, although I remove myself from it. Its light often shines on this night traveler: and when it does, I scribble it down. Whatever pleasure is in it I need pass on. That's happiness.… — Virginia Hamilton Copy Share Image
For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written. It is the feeling early humans must have experienced when the firelight first overcame the darkness of the cave. It is the communal cooking pot, the Street, all over again. It… — Virginia Hamilton Copy Share
The meaning of the Street in all ways and at all times is the need for sharing life with others and the search for… — Virginia Hamilton Copy Share Image
I can’t explain how it is I keep having new ideas. But one book inevitably follows another. It is my way of exploring the… — Virginia Hamilton Copy Share Image
Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us. — Virginia Hamilton Copy Share Image
To leave a place, you'd best leave everything behind; all your possessions, including memory. Traveling's not as easy as it's made out to be. — Virginia Hamilton Copy Share Image
You always feel you are not deserving. People who are successful at what they do know what kind of work goes with it, so… — Virginia Hamilton Copy Share Image
The past moves me and with me, although I remove myself from it. Its light often shines on this night traveler: and when it… — Virginia Hamilton Copy Share Image
The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty. — Virginia Hamilton Copy Share Image
For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them… — Virginia Hamilton Copy Share Image
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