Betsy Byars quotes

When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I'll have a book. (Betsy Byars)

I think how you look is the most important thing in the world. If you look cute, you are cute; if you look smart, you are smart, and if you don't look like anything, you aren't anything.

Betsy Byars

the real reason I had wanted to grow up, the main reason I had been willing to even consider becoming an adult, was so I could have as many pets as I wanted.

Betsy Byars

My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals.

Betsy Byars

Writing is like anything - baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get. But it seems to take a longer time to get better at writing than hammering nails.

Betsy Byars

For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.

Betsy Byars

The people you don't know turn out to be exactly like the people you do know, same faults, same everything.

Betsy Byars

I love writing. I've pursued it with a passion.

Betsy Byars

Early in my career, I decided not to do sequels. I know that children enjoy them, but I valued the feeling that this was the only time I would write about these characters. I felt it gave me an added incentive to do my best by them, to tell readers everything I knew, to hold nothing back.

Betsy Byars

Betsy Byars

Occupation: Author
Quotes count: 9

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