Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Ellen Raskin

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Ellen Raskin.

Last updated on November 3, 2024.

Ellen Raskin was an American children's writer and illustrator. She won the 1979 Newbery Medal for The Westing Game, a mystery novel, and another children's mystery, Figgs & Phantoms, was a Newbery Honor Book in 1975.

American - Writer | March 13, 1928 - August 8, 1984

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I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible." "Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.

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Smiling without good reason is demeaning.

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The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. - James Shin Hoo

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Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.

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Grace said,"Dr. Wexler was called away on an emergency operation." "An emergency Packers game in Green Bay," Turtle confided to Flora Baumbach.

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I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. A book is a package, a gift package, a surprise package-and within the wrappings is a whole new world and beyond.

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The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!

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Your trouble comes from years of wearing the wrong kind of shoes. - Jake Wexler

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