The Chronicles of Harris Burdick Quotes

“If you don't know where you're going, stop racing to get there. -- from Just Desert by M. T. Anderson”
― Chris Van Allsburg, The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales

“...and how positively full and brimming-to-burst with words I am. This is what Mrs. Bullwhyte would call one of my "extended flights of fancy." She said that I am terribly prone to them and often told me that I should rein myself in or the world was bound to disappoint me.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales

“Hyperbole is sometimes necessary to get at the truth. (It seems odd, doesn't it, that we have to lie to tell the truth better?)”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales

“Book lovers love books!" her mother announced. "There's romance about the books- even having them seems to have a kind of excitement."
from Mr. Linden's Library by Walter Dean Myers”
― Chris Van Allsburg, The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales

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― Chris Van Allsburg, The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales