Virginia Hamilton Quotes

• The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.

  Virginia Hamilton

  Children, Book, Mind

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• Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us.

  Virginia Hamilton

  Library, Who We Are, Forget

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• For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written.

  Virginia Hamilton

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• To leave a place, you'd best leave everything behind; all your possessions, including memory. Traveling's not as easy as it's made out to be.

  Virginia Hamilton

  Memories, Moving, Easy

  Virginia Hamilton (2003). “M. C. Higgins, the Great”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• The past moves me and with me, although I remove myself from it. Its light often shines on this night traveler: and when it does, I scribble it down. Whatever pleasure is in it I need pass on. That's happiness. That is who I am.

  Virginia Hamilton

  Moving, Past, Night

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• I can’t explain how it is I keep having new ideas. But one book inevitably follows another. It is my way of exploring the known, the remembered, and the imagined, the literary triad of which all stories are made.

  Virginia Hamilton

  Book, Ideas, Stories

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• The meaning of the Street in all ways and at all times is the need for sharing life with others and the search for community.

  Virginia Hamilton

  Life, Community, Inspire

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• You always feel you are not deserving. People who are successful at what they do know what kind of work goes with it, so they are surprised at the praise.

  Virginia Hamilton

  Success, People, Kind

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• For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written. It is the feeling early humans must have experienced when the firelight first overcame the darkness of the cave. It is the communal cooking pot, the Street, all over again. It is our need to know we are not alone.

  Virginia Hamilton

  Cooking, Darkness, Feelings

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