66 Quotes by E. L. Konigsburg

I don't think there is any feeling I like more than the one that someone is glad to see me. —Connor Kane

Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.

How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence.

When you hug someone, you learn something else about them. An important something else.

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.

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.

It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.