Betsy Byars

For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire…

— Betsy Byars

“I usually get the title for a book first, and I type it up immediately. I sit there and look at it…

— Betsy Byars

Early in my career, I decided not to do sequels. I know that children enjoy them, but I valued the feeling that…

— Betsy Byars

My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals.

— Betsy Byars

the real reason I had wanted to grow up, the main reason I had been willing to even consider becoming an adult,…

— Betsy Byars

I love writing. I've pursued it with a passion.

— Betsy Byars

Writing is like anything - baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get.…

— Betsy Byars

When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand…

— Betsy Byars

“I stood right in this house, in that room," Aunt Willie interrupted. She pointed toward the front bedroom. "And I promised your…

— Betsy Byars

“That was the trouble with life—it never quite fulfilled its promises.”

— Betsy Byars

“I have cried over myself a hundred times this summer, she thought, I have wept over my big feet and my skinny…

— Betsy Byars

I think how you look is the most important thing in the world. If you look cute, you are cute; if you…

— Betsy Byars

My husband has some very interesting hobbies, and through him, I've learned to fly and earned my pilot's license. Together, we fly…

— Betsy Byars

“It was as if her life was a huge kaleidoscope, and the kaleidoscope had been turned and now everything was changed. The…

— Betsy Byars

“The people you don't know turn out to be exactly like the people you do know, same faults, same everything.”

— Betsy Byars