Zilpha Keatley Snyder Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.