Natalie Babbitt Quotes

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• Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.
• Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.
• The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris…
• Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't.
• Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.
• For some, time passes slowly. An hour can seem like an eternity. For others, there was never enough. For Jesse Tuck, it didn't exist.
• Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life
• But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being…
• You dont have to live forever just live.
• Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes.
• Time is like a wheel. Turning and turning - never stopping. And the woods are the center; the hub of the wheel. It began the…
• The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris…
• Living's heavy work, but off to one side, the way we are, it's useless, too. It don't make sense. If I knowed how to climb…
• It'd be nice to have a new name, to start with, one that's not all worn out from being called so much.
• I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In…
• I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.
• My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in class, except in…
• I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
• Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our…
• I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.

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