E. L. Konigsburg

“Sometimes you don't discover you're wrong until you're ready to know it.”

“The most important thing to know is that you can do it.”

“I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything.”

“Secrets are the kind of adventure you can have without leaving home.”

“Before you can be a part of a family, you have to be a person. You have to be an individual.”

“Even though it is true that you are on your own, that is not the same as being alone.”

“Sometimes you have to get to know someone pretty well to appreciate them.”

“The difference between a truth and a fact is that a fact is just a detail and a truth is the whole story.”

“I write for the children of today, the adults of tomorrow.”

“It is a very good thing to be alive.”

“I felt that I was not, never had been, and never would be a novelist. I was a storyteller. And what a difference!”

“It takes a lot of nerve to be a genius.”

“Some people are just born human. The rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.”

“I feel that you can't write about a child unless you are a child. I am a child.”