Writer Quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett

9 Writer quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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From classic children’s tales to adult narratives, Burnett’s reflections on the writer’s role are distilled into nine short, evocative lines that hint at her timeless voice.

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She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

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I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely…

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“SARA CREWE OR WHAT HAPPENED AT MISS MINCHIN'S BY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1891 Copyright, 1888, by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS.”

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Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed…

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The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose…

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“They were as real as Sara, and it was careless of them not to come out of the story shadowland and say,…

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“This novel was in a sense developed in stages. First published as a series in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1887 as Sara…

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“Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed…

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“Sara, who snatched her lessons at all sorts of untimely hours from tattered and discarded books, and who had a hungry craving…

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“I've seen the spring now and I'm going to see the summer. I'm going to see everything grow here. I'm going to grow here…

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“If she had cried and sobbed and seemed frightened, Miss Minchin might almost have had more patience with her. She was a woman who…

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“I was thinking," she said. "Beg my pardon immediately," said Miss Minchin. "I will beg your pardon for laughing, if it was rude," said…

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“She said that perhaps it was not so easy to be very rich; that if any one had so many things always, one might…

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I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things…

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“You don't know that you are saying these things to a princess, and that if I chose I could wave my hand and order…

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“Well, it is. One of her 'pretends' is that she is a princess. She plays it all the time—even in school. She says it…

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“They know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage and they are not, and they…

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“Tom's Cabin, and she spent many hours acting out”

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... justice is mercy's highest self.

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