Quotes from Patricia Polacco

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad!

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

All of us have a 'voice' inside where all inspired thoughts come from. When I talk to children and aspiring writers, I always ask them to turn off the TV and listen to that voice inside them.

Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure…

Honey is sweet] and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book.

Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without touch. It is understanding without research. It is certainty without proof. It is ability without practice. It is invention without limitations. It is imagination without boundaries. It is creativity without constraints. It is...extraordinary intelligence!

You'd have to go through at least four different hugs to get from the kitchen to the front room. Those relatives!'.

All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take from it - did it make you laugh, cry, or seek and want justice? Then it's true.

You were born with the power to change others. You change people by the way you treat them. That is what changes the human heart.

What I loved most about our family was that we could all speak our hearts. We never measured words.

When Anna went to school, English sounded to her like pebbles dropping into shallow water.