Patricia MacLachlan famous quotes

03-24-2025

Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough.
-- Patricia MacLachlan

#Giving #Lovely #Looks
All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad.
-- Patricia MacLachlan

#Poetry #Needs #World
Life is made up of circles ... Life is not a straight line ... And sometimes we circle back to a past time. But we are not the same. We are changed forever.
-- Patricia MacLachlan

#Life #Past #Circles
You should know that there are some things for which there are no answers, no matter how beautiful the words may be.
-- Patricia MacLachlan

#Beautiful #May #Matter
I think its important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, its where they begin as children that is important to them.
-- Patricia MacLachlan

#Children #Thinking #Important
Im working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, shes a smarter and better editor than I am.
-- Patricia MacLachlan

#Daughter #Editors #Way
Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
-- Patricia MacLachlan

#Imperfection #Married #Realizing
I never work from an outline, and often I dont know how the story will end.
-- Patricia MacLachlan

#Stories #Ends
I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
-- Patricia MacLachlan

#Children #Ability #Great Respect
I love to talk to children about making mistakes. Its important that I tell them about how I dont get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.
-- Patricia MacLachlan

#Children #Mistake #Important
I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, A picture book is the essence of an experience.
-- Patricia MacLachlan

#Book #Writing #Essence
In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.
-- Patricia MacLachlan

#Long #Childhood #Pages
Fact and fiction are different truths.
-- Patricia MacLachlan

#Facts #Different #Fiction
My greatest fear is being somewhere without a book.
-- Patricia MacLachlan

#Book
What is perfect? Journey, a thing doesn't have to be perfect to be fine. That goes for a picture. That goes for life....Things can be good enough.
-- Patricia MacLachlan

#Journey #Perfect #Good Enough
There is always something to miss, no matter where you are.
-- Patricia MacLachlan

#Missing #Matter #Where You Are
I, myself, write to change my life, to make it come out the way I want it to. But other people write for other reasons: to see more closely what it is they are thinking about, what they may be afraid of. Sometimes writers write to solve a problem, to answer their own question. All these reasons are good reasons. And that is the most important thing I'll ever tell you. Maybe it is the most important thing you'll ever hear. Ever.
-- Patricia MacLachlan

#Writing #Thinking #People

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