Top 11 Quotes by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

If you try to make your circle closed and exclusively yours, it never grows very much. Only a circle that has lots of room for anybody who needs it has enough spare space to hold any real magic.

If you try to make your circle closed and exclusively yours, it never grows very much. Only a circle that has lots of room for anybody who needs it has enough spare space to hold any real magic.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Real, Circles, Space

Zilpha Keatley Snyder (2012). “Black and Blue Magic”, p.183, Open Road Media

Know all the Questions, but not the Answers Look for the Different, instead of the Same Never Walk where there's room for Running Don't do anything that can't be a Game

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Running, Games, Different

Zilpha Keatley Snyder (2004). “The Changeling”, p.160, iUniverse

Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Real, Dark, Imagination

Zilpha Keatley Snyder (2012). “The Egypt Game”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

There was that special smell made up of paper, ink, and dust; the busy hush; the endless luxury of thousands of unread books. Best of all was the eager itch of anticipation as you went out the door with your arms loaded down with books.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Book, Doors, Dust

Zilpha Keatley Snyder (2004). “The Velvet Room”, p.64, iUniverse

Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Luxury, Belief, Mystery

Nothing's real unless you want it to be, and anything can be real if you want it to enough; so real doesn't really mean anything.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Real, Mean, Want

Zilpha Keatley Snyder (2012). “Season of Ponies”, p.39, Open Road Media

It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore. I know that many writers for children say they do not write specifically with a child audience in mind ... This isn't true for me. I am very aware of my audience. Sometimes I can almost see them out there reacting as I write. Sometimes I think, 'Oh, you're going to like this part.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Children, Reading, Writing