About Rachel Field: Rachel Lyman Field is best known for the Newbery Award-winning Hitty, Her First Hundred Years. Field also won a National Book Award, Newbery Honor award and two of her books are on the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list.
The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if an artist were great enough to summon it.
I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.
One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
