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
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.
differences friendly earth
The way I see it, the difference between farmers and suburbanites is the difference in the way we feel about dirt. To them, the earth is something to be respected and preserved, but dirt gets no respect. A farmer likes dirt. Suburbanites like to get rid of it. Dirt is the working layer of earth, and dealing with dirt is as much a part of farm life as dealing with manure. Neither is user-friendly but both are necessary.
hug important
When you hug someone, you learn something else about them. An important something else.
indecision indecisiveness persons
Indecisiveness wears a person out.
color broken add
They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.
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.
excellence knows ifs
Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?
thinking bridges space
Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.
invisible ninety percent
Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender
healthy vitamins dose
Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy.
teacher team eggs
They called themselves The Souls. They told Ms. Olinski that they were The Souls before they were a team, but she told them that they were a team as soon as they became The Souls. Then after a while, teacher and team agreed that they were arguing chicken-or-egg. Whichever way it began--chicken-or-egg, team-or-The Souls--it definitely ended with an egg. Definitely, an egg.