Top 5 Quotes by Jean Little

Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.

Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.

Writing, Responsibility, Stories

Jean Little (2001). “Orphan at My Door: The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope”, Markham, Ont. : Scholastic Canada

While he has not, in my hearing, spoken the English language, he makes it perfectly plain that he understands it. And he uses his ears, tail, eyebrows, various rumbles and grunts, the slant of his great cold nose or a succession of heartrending sighs to get his meaning across.

Jean Little

Dog, Eyebrows, Tails

Jean Little (1990). “Stars Come Out Within”, Markham, Ont. : Viking

you pay a price for the 'gift' of an active imagination. While mine played a major part in making me a writer, it also made me adept at transforming run-of-the-mill molehills into towering mountain ranges.

Jean Little

Running, Mountain Ranges, Imagination

Jean Little (1990). “Stars Come Out Within”, Markham, Ont. : Viking

In this life, nobody has forever in which to leave home, to return, to make a new home, or to open the door to someone. Death doesn't wait while we tidy everything up. And there are several kinds of dying.

Jean Little

Home, Doors, Waiting