Virginia Euwer Wolff Quotes

If you dont like me, Walk away , Matter of fact Run Away

Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction - so we are told.

My mother had no idea that her daughter would turn out to be a writer, but she would not let me go through a day of my childhood without music.

You ever laughed so hard
nobody in the world could hurt you for a minute,
no matter what they tried to do to you?

I sure would like to get kissed.
How would that feel on my mouth,
How different would I be after,
a changed climate down in my insides?

If you want something to grow and be so beautiful you could have a nice day just from looking at it, you have to wait.

I work early in the morning, before my nasty critic gets up - he rises about noon. By then, I've put in much of a day's work.

Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.

Rise to the occassion which is life!

A good book is never finished - -it goes on whispering to you from the wall.

No one writes as slowly as I do, I'm convinced. It's so hard for me. I learn slowly; I make decisions at a snail's pace.