Natalie Babbitt
Natalie Babbitt
Natalie Babbitt is an American writer and illustrator of children's books. For her contributions as a children's writer, she was U.S. nominee for the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1982...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth28 July 1932
CityDayton, OH
CountryUnited States of America
life-and-love live-life forever
Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.
fun reading kids
The only thing I would want to say is that storytelling is ancient; it's something that everybody does. Kids mustn't be in awe of it. Reading should be a joy - fun, fun, fun - not a responsibility, not something you do because society demands it, but something you do because it's a pleasure.
enough eternity hours
For some, time passes slowly. An hour can seem like an eternity. For others, there was never enough. For Jesse Tuck, it didn't exist.
ocean taken whales
The sea can swallow ships, and it can spit out whales like watermelon seeds. It will take what it wants, and it will keep what it has taken, and you may not take away from it what it does not wish to give.
lonely book reading
in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance to do in ordinary life. It's amazing that those twenty-six little marks of the alphabet can arrange themselves on the pages of a book and accomplish all that. Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.
long matter everlasting
Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.
nice names worn
It'd be nice to have a new name, to start with, one that's not all worn out from being called so much.
fear-of-death
Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life
children years tennessee
Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.
reading ohio drawing
I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
dream branches facts
Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams.
forever just-live live-forever
You dont have to live forever just live.
blessing dying pieces
But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thing, that's the blessing.
philosophy simple magnificent
Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.