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
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.
hug important
When you hug someone, you learn something else about them. An important something else.
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
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.
grandpa making-love pieces
Nathan, how can you stand playing the same piece over and over again?" And Grandpa Nate answered, "Why don't you ask me how I can stand making love to the same woman over and over again?
simplicity elegant
True simplicity is elegant.
waiting different different-things
Biding one's time is a very different thing from patience.