45 Quotes by Louise Fitzhugh

"If you ever get in real trouble, don’t panic. Sit down and think about it. Remember two things, always. There must be some way out of it and there must be humor in it somewhere."

"It won’t do you a bit of good to know everything if you don’t do anything with it."

"If Marion Hawthorne doesn’t watch out, she’s going to grow up into a lady Hitler."

"When people don’t do anything they don’t think anything, and when people don’t think anything there’s nothing to think about them.- Harriet the Spy."

"It feels... as though doors were opening all over the world... It’s bigger, somehow, the world."

"Writers don’t care what they eat. They just care what you think of them."

"Miss Elson came into the room and they all stood up and said, “Good morning, Miss Elson.” Miss Elson bowed and said, “Good morning, children.” Then they all sat down and punched each other."

"I’m going to take you somewhere. It’s time you began to see the world. You’re eleven years old and it’s time you saw something."

"Well, I’m going to be a writer. And when I say that’s a mountain, that’s a mountain."

"I feel all the same things when I do things alone as when Ole Golly was here. The bath feels hot, the bed feels soft, but I feel there’s a funny little hole in me that wasn’t there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above my stomach."