Zilpha Keatley Snyder Quotes

• If you try to make your circle closed and exclusively yours, it never grows very much. Only a circle that has lots of room for anybody who needs it has enough spare space to hold any real magic.

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder

  Real, Circles, Space

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder (2012). “Black and Blue Magic”, p.183, Open Road Media

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• Know all the Questions, but not the Answers Look for the Different, instead of the Same Never Walk where there's room for Running Don't do anything that can't be a Game

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder

  Running, Games, Different

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder (2004). “The Changeling”, p.160, iUniverse

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• Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley.

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder

  Real, Dark, Imagination

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder (2012). “The Egypt Game”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• There was that special smell made up of paper, ink, and dust; the busy hush; the endless luxury of thousands of unread books. Best of all was the eager itch of anticipation as you went out the door with your arms loaded down with books.

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder

  Book, Doors, Dust

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder (2004). “The Velvet Room”, p.64, iUniverse

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• Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life.

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder

  Luxury, Belief, Mystery

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• It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore. I know that many writers for children say they do not write specifically with a child audience in mind ... This isn't true for me. I am very aware of my audience. Sometimes I can almost see them out there reacting as I write. Sometimes I think, 'Oh, you're going to like this part.

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder

  Children, Reading, Writing

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• Nothing's real unless you want it to be, and anything can be real if you want it to enough; so real doesn't really mean anything.

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder

  Real, Mean, Want

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder (2012). “Season of Ponies”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• We all invite our own devils, and we must exorcise our own.

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder

  Devil, Invites

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder (2012). “The Witches of Worm”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child
  discover that reading is a marvelous
  adventure rather than a chore.

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder

  Children, Reading, Adventure

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• Eleven would have been the best time. Eleven is just about the best age for almost everything.

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder

  Age, Eleven

  "The Changeling".

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• The answers aren't important really... What's important is- knowing all the questions.

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder

  Knowing, Important, Answers

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