KIRBY LARSON QUOTES

American writer (1954- )

The truth can both lift up and knock down.

KIRBY LARSON

Hattie Ever After

Tags: truth


Why couldn't I be more like other girls my age? Take Mrs. Brown's niece. She spent every waking hour sizing up this beau or that, stitching tea towels and petticoats and putting aside a little each month for a set of Spode Buttercup dishes.

KIRBY LARSON

Hattie Ever After

Tags: women


I think if you find your passion and you go with it you are rewarded.

KIRBY LARSON

interview, Feb. 23, 2010

Tags: passion


Character is everything, especially these days when that's what publishers are asking for. Make sure that yours have child appeal. Also don't have a huge cast of characters. One or two is best, four, the maximum.

KIRBY LARSON

Kirby's Lane, Nov. 30, 2012

Tags: character


[Rejection] made me quit writing once. For six months. I started up again when my then seven-year-old son asked me to start writing again because I was too grumpy when I wasn't writing.

KIRBY LARSON

interview, Author Turf, March 6, 2014

Tags: writing


There should be fireworks, at least, when a dream dies.

KIRBY LARSON

Hattie Big Sky

Tags: dreams


I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience.

KIRBY LARSON

Hattie Big Sky

Tags: experience


There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.

KIRBY LARSON

Hattie Big Sky


Well, before writing became all-consuming, I was a quilter, like Hattie and Perilee. I don't do that anymore, but I do knit, garden and watch the birds in my backyard. I also take lots of walks, do yoga and talk my husband into taking me out to dinner as often as possible.

KIRBY LARSON

interview, Feb. 27, 2009


I gotta pound the keys for the ideas to flow.

KIRBY LARSON

interview, Author Turf, March 6, 2014

Tags: ideas


It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.

KIRBY LARSON

Hattie Big Sky

Tags: cooking


I love visiting new places but am not overly fond of the travel to get to them.

KIRBY LARSON

interview, Author Turf, March 6, 2014

Tags: travel


Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?

KIRBY LARSON

Hattie Big Sky


I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.

KIRBY LARSON

interview, Feb. 23, 2010

Tags: books


The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.

KIRBY LARSON

The Friendship Doll

Tags: birds


I have an office in my house, with a comfy red print reading chair and a soft cream-colored desk. After I walk Winston the Wonder dog and have my breakfast, I head to my office. Every single day. Sometimes, when I'm working on revisions, I print off my manuscript and go to a coffee shop to work. But mostly you can find me in my office.

KIRBY LARSON

interview, Read, Write, Reflect, February 5, 2013


It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.

KIRBY LARSON

Hattie Big Sky

Tags: misfortune


When I was a little girl, I dreamed of being a detective, like Encyclopedia Brown. Being a researcher is a way I've achieved that dream ... without the danger.

KIRBY LARSON

interview, Read, Write, Reflect, February 5, 2013


Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

KIRBY LARSON

Hattie Big Sky

Tags: life


Our actions make the fragrance of our lives.... Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?

KIRBY LARSON

The Friendship Doll

Tags: action