Marion Dane Bauer > Quotes

“A good friend of mine once said, "I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child.”
― Marion Dane Bauer, Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence

“It is the nature of stories to leave out far more than they include.”
― Marion Dane Bauer, The Very Little Princess

“The power of fiction is that it gives us, as readers, the opportunity to move inside another human being, to look out through that person's eyes, hear with her ears, think with his thoughts, feel with her feelings. It is the only form of art which can accomplish that feat so deeply, so completely. And thus it is the perfect bridge for helping us coming to know the other - the other inside as well as outside ourselves. (x)”
― Marion Dane Bauer, Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence

“We writers can use our own longing - and frequently do - without ever having to understand or analyze it. That is why our stories are often wiser than we are.”
― Marion Dane Bauer

“Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.”
― Marion Dane Bauer, What's Your Story?: A Young Person's Guide to Writing Fiction – Point of View, Dialogue, Endings, and Revision

“So much longing.
So many lives
filled
with longing.

It's what stories―
all our stories―
are made of.

And what is longing
made of
except hope?”
― Marion Dane Bauer, Little Dog, Lost

“I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child. (ix)”
― Marion Dane Bauer, Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence

“RUNT is my FAVORITE book.It starts out small.Then,it gets exciting in the middle.In the end it settled.”
― Marion Dane Bauer, Runt

“You should know better than to run from a storm, too. We wolves are careful. Always we are careful. But we are not afraid. Not of our own good world.(pp. 48)”
― Marion Dane Bauer, Runt

“But never
in his saddest dreams
had he thought he'd spend
his last years
dusting
this enormous old house
for no one
at all.”
― Marion Dane Bauer, Little Dog, Lost

“tears are probably the best cure for a touch of sadness.”
― Marion Dane Bauer, The Blue Ghost

“tears are probably the best cure for a touch of sadness."
The Blue Ghost”
― Marion Dane Bauer

“A cry
drifted along Walnut Street,
more mournful than any tears.
It rode a puff of breeze
into the bedroom
where Mark lay,
holding himself awake.
Bark! Bark! Bark!
A-wooooo-ooo-ooo!
Bark! Bark!
Awooo!

Mark popped up like a jack-in-the-box.

The cry came again,
thin and clear.
It sounded exactly like,
“Mark, Mark Mark.
I need yoooo-ooo-oou!”

Surely he was imagining things.”
― Marion Dane Bauer, Little Dog, Lost

“never”
― Marion Dane Bauer, Little Cat's Luck

“You tell me about your ghost," she said. "And I'ss tell you about mine.”
― Marion Dane Bauer, The Blue Ghost