Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Betsy Byars

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author Betsy Byars.

Last updated on September 18, 2024.

Betsy Byars was an American author of children's books. Her novel Summer of the Swans won the 1971 Newbery Medal. She has also received a National Book Award for Young People's Literature for The Night Swimmers (1980) and an Edgar Award for Wanted ... Mud Blossom (1991).

American - Author | Born: August 7, 1928

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the real reason I had wanted to grow up, the main reason I had been willing to even consider becoming an adult, was so I could have as many pets as I wanted.

Betsy Byars

When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I’ll have a book.

Betsy Byars

Writing is like anything - baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get. But it seems to take a longer time to get better at writing than hammering nails.

Betsy Byars

I think how you look is the most important thing in the world. If you look cute, you are cute; if you look smart, you are smart, and if you don't look like anything, you aren't anything.

Betsy Byars

My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals.

Betsy Byars

For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.

Betsy Byars