Jennifer Chiaverini famous quotes

03-26-2025

Two quilters who have just met will be strangers only until their mutual passion for quilting is revealed. Then they can talk for hours like the best of friends.
-- Jennifer Chiaverini

#Passion #Two #Stranger
Anyone who works on a quilt, who devotes her time, energy, creativity, and passion to that art, learns to value the work of her hands. And as any quilter will tell you, a quilter's quilting friends are some of the dearest, most generous, and most supportive people she knows.
-- Jennifer Chiaverini

#Art #Quilts #Passion
One can never had too many librarian friends.
-- Jennifer Chiaverini

#Librarian
When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other.
-- Jennifer Chiaverini

#Writing #Use #Firsts
For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.
-- Jennifer Chiaverini

#Rights #Issues #Long
Over the years, I've traveled to many places for inspiration and research, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, South Carolina, California, and Hawaii.
-- Jennifer Chiaverini

#Inspiration #Ohio #Years
Beginning writers are often advised to 'write what you know,' and since I knew about quilters - their quirks, their inside jokes, their disputes and their generosity, their quarrels and their kindnesses - the lives of quilters became a natural subject for me. Quilting wove together my two themes as completely and effortlessly as I could have hoped.
-- Jennifer Chiaverini

#Kindness #Writing #Two
Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those qualities enabled her to deliver herself from slavery and become a successful businesswoman.
-- Jennifer Chiaverini

#Perseverance #Successful #Quality
I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do. Too many women I knew disparaged their work. Many working mothers thought they ought to be home with their children instead, so they carried around too much guilt to enjoy much job satisfaction.
-- Jennifer Chiaverini

#Mother #Jobs #Children
I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.
-- Jennifer Chiaverini

#Stories #Way #My Favorite
People who assume my books are only about quilts obviously haven't read them! I've always known that my books are about quilters - in other words, people - rather than quilts or quilting.
-- Jennifer Chiaverini

#Quilts #Book #People
Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a slave, while Elizabeth offered Mary the loyal, steadfast friendship she craved but had always found so elusive.
-- Jennifer Chiaverini

#Opportunity #Years #Advancement
Anna, falling in love with you was like coming home to a place I didn't realize I'd been missing all my life. You're the only person I've ever known who accepts me for who I am, right in this moment, faults and all, and isn't waiting for me to become someone else.
-- Jennifer Chiaverini

#Falling In Love #Love You #Home
Ignorant people, whispering cruel rumors, her mother whispered. Pay them no mind.
-- Jennifer Chiaverini

#Mother #People #Mind
Sometimes the most ordinary things are the ones we learn to miss the most.
-- Jennifer Chiaverini

#Missing #Ordinary #Ordinary Things
People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books.
-- Jennifer Chiaverini

#Book #Long #People
What I would give, I thought, to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on topics significant and ordinary, to observe the Lincoln White House from such an intimate perspective. From that moment, my interest in their remarkable friendship was captivated, and it never really waned.
-- Jennifer Chiaverini

#White #Giving #Perspective
Who said you had to fill his shoes? Wear your own shoes. They're bound to fit better. Walk your own path your own way and you'll be more likely to get to where you need to be.
-- Jennifer Chiaverini

#Shoes #Needs #Way
Marvelously entertaining, Gabrielle Donnellys The Little Women Letters evokes the spirit of Louisa May Alcotts Little Women with warmth and affection. I thoroughly enjoyed every word of this wonderful book.
-- Jennifer Chiaverini

#Book #Letters #May
Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.
-- Jennifer Chiaverini

#Lying #Omission #Deception
Kate Forsythâ€™s Bitter Greens is an enthralling concoction of history and magic, an absorbing, richly detailed, and heart-wrenching reimagining of a timeless fairytale.
-- Jennifer Chiaverini

#Heart #Magic #Fairytale
In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set in the past let me have fun researching patterns that were popular and fabrics and tools available to quilters through history.
-- Jennifer Chiaverini

#Art #Fun #Writing

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