Quotes by Kathryn Lasky

About Kathryn Lasky:

Kathryn Lasky is an American children's writer who also writes for adults under the names Kathryn Lasky Knight and E. L. Swann. Her children's books include several Dear America books, The Royal Diaries books, Sugaring Time, The Night Journey, Wolves of the Beyond, and the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series.
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Flutter like a hummingbird, Dive like an eagle, Ain't no bird that's my equal. - Twilight

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We are only as noble as our actions prove us to be.

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I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.

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Dreams weigh nothing. - Marie Antoinette

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Are you scared of going in to see the raghnaid [the council]?” asked a gray female pup. “Are you cag mag [crazy]? If a bear was his Milk Giver, you think he’s scared of the raghnaid?

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There was a sudden stillness like the gap between ticks on a clock, but the next tick never coming.

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Courage... is fear holding on just a bit longer.

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I will go to the Ring of Sacred Volcanoes, but I shall go not as a member of the MacHeath clan — no, I shall go as a free runner. I reject you. I deny you, I refuse and repudiate you as my clan.

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I believe that reading widely is the best preparation for writing.

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Whether you are a twelve-year-old princess or a twelve-year-old regular kid, you need to know you are loved and respected.

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I think, first and foremost ,Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking - of thinking at all in any profound way.

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Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.

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I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!

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I feel I was always daydreaming, and I was always distracted.

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In our community here in Boston, we have had a tremendous influx of Russian Jews and Haitians. We call these people immigrants. But they come for the same reasons that William Bradford and William Brewster and John Carver came.

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I was actually very hesitant to write about Marie Antoinette. She seemed at first glance - well, I cannot think of any other term - an airhead of the first degree.

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With my husband, I have twice sailed across the Atlantic in a sailboat one third the length of the Mayflower. I know Atlantic gales inside and out. I endured one that lasted for three days with winds up to fifty knots.

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I treat all my characters as if they were real, and I am scrupulous about the details of their lives.

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I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with a female character. They all had the same challenges in terms of attempting to establish an identity, coping with loneliness, friendshi...

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Manic depressive people often have incredible energy and a slightly skewed, but nonetheless valid, way of looking at things.

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Author Bio

  • NameKathryn Lasky
  • DescriptionAmerican children's writer
  • BornJune 24, 1944
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist