Claudia Mills > Quotes

“When you're in a family, it's not clear where one person's story begins and another person's story ends" -Autumn”
― Claudia Mills, Write This Down

“To Beverly Reingold, again and always, and this time to Abby Sider, too”
― Claudia Mills, You're a Brave Man, Julius Zimmerman

“It’s amazing how just one thing said by just one person in the middle of just one conversation on just one regular day can start a person wondering things she had never wondered before.”
― Claudia Mills, The Lost Language

“There's a kind of terrible stress that makes you eat three pieces of coconut cake, but there's an even more terrible kind of stress where you can't bear the thought of eating anything at all" -Autumn”
― Claudia Mills, Write This Down

“Here's the best thing about being a writer: it's like having a magic wand to make whatever you want happen to imaginary people in a made-up world.

Here's the worst thing about being a writer: it makes you wish even more that you had a magic wand to make whatever you want happen to actual people in your own real life" -Autumn”
― Claudia Mills, Write This Down

“clay pots or bowls made of clay “snakes” rolled out and”
― Claudia Mills, Mason Dixon: Pet Disasters

“glint”
― Claudia Mills, Cody Harmon, King of Pets

“But that's the thing about words. They can't ever really erase other words. They can scribble over them, but they can never make them totally go away." -Autumn”
― Claudia Mills, Write This Down

“easier to go”
― Claudia Mills, Vera Vance: Comics Star

“8”
― Claudia Mills, Fourth Grade Disasters