Life Quote by Betsy Byars

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

— Betsy Byars

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

— Betsy Byars

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

— 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, was so…

— 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. But it…

— Betsy Byars

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

— Betsy Byars

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

— 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 legs and…

— Betsy Byars

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

— Betsy Byars