Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards

I have cried over myself a hundred times this summer, she thought, I have wept over my big feet and my skinny legs and my nose, I have even cried over my stupid shoes, and now when I have true sadness there are no tears left.

I usually get the title for a book first, and I type it up immediately. I sit there and look at it and admire it, and I think to myself, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I'l have a book. It is such a pleasurable moment that I type many more title pages than I could ever use.

That was the trouble with life—it never quite fulfilled its promises.

Betsy Byars

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Written By Betsy Byars

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