E. L. Konigsburg
E. L. Konigsburg
Elaine Lobl Konigsburgwas an American writer and illustrator of children's books and young adult fiction. She is one of six writers to win two Newbery Medals, the venerable American Library Association award for the year's "most distinguished contribution to American children's literature."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth10 February 1930
CountryUnited States of America
E. L. Konigsburg quotes about
children files liked medal unusual won
After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
facts should deals
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. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.
being-yourself just-be-yourself hardest
Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.
indecision indecisiveness persons
Indecisiveness wears a person out.
fifteen planning minutes
Five minutes of planning are worth fifteen minutes of just looking.
mistake successful risk
By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.
nice safe
There's something nice and safe about having money.
invisible ninety percent
Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender
waiting different different-things
Biding one's time is a very different thing from patience.
thank-you use unnecessary
It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.
behavior believe emotional experience future observed order patterns recognize
I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.
art happens head visceral
Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.
meets readers written
Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
essential kids remain
The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two contradictory things. They want to be the same as everyone else, and they want to be different from everyone else. They want acceptance for both.