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All Quotes by author - Zilpha Keatley Snyder
" At the age of eight I became, in my own eyes at least, a writer. "
My Own
Age
Own
" Books were the window from which I looked out of a rather meager and decidedly narrow room onto a rich and wonderful universe. I loved the look and feel of books, even the smell... Libraries were treasure houses. I always entered them with a slight thrill of disbelief that all their endless riches were mine for the borrowing. "
Window
Loved
Rich
" I seemed to have been born reading. "
Born
Seemed
Reading
" I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them. "
Writing
Childhood
Habit
" Teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with ten or eleven years of experience as human beings. It is, I think, a magical time - when so much has been learned, but not yet enough to entirely extinguish the magical reach and freedom of early childhood. "
Freedom
Time
Childhood
" There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup. "
Teeth
Children
Better
" Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings. "
Experience
Appreciation
Children
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