25 Quotes by Virginia Euwer Wolff

You get olderand you are a whole mess of things,new thoughts, sorry feelings,big plans, enormous doubts,goling along hoping and getting disappointed,over and over again,no wonder I don't recognizemy little crayon picture.It appears to be meand it isand it is not.

Rise to the occassion which is life!

He could add something to the list of things you weren't supposed to do. Don't get hurt, don't get dirty, don't get drunk, don't get scared, don't count on it. You ended up doing all of them.

I sure would like to get kissed.How would that feel on my mouth,How different would I be after,a changed climate down in my insides?

Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.

I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork. The moment the old man cannot return to.

I work early in the morning, before my nasty critic gets up - he rises about noon. By then, I've put in much of a day's work.

No one writes as slowly as I do, I'm convinced. It's so hard for me. I learn slowly; I make decisions at a snail's pace.

Shakespeare had found language for the agony of living with one's own mistakes. There were words for finding yourself isolated with your failures. Phrases for discovering that you were wrong, all, all wrong, wrong, wrong.