Robert McCloskey Quotes

• I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

  Robert McCloskey

  Believe, Communication, Knowledge

  TV Guide, March 31, 1984.

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• Because its hard to realize now that that was the end of the great depression, you know. All of a sudden all of this is in front of me and I'm solvent, you know. I'm making some money and I know where my next meal is coming from, and I have a new pair of shoes and that's it.

  Robert McCloskey

  Shoes, Meals, Next

  47 Copy quote

• I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world where ducks are crossing the street.

  Robert McCloskey

  Children, Ducks, Adults

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• That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out!

  Robert McCloskey

  Book, Acceptance, Necks

  7 Copy quote

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