Annie Fellows Johnston Quotes

I've come to believe that every one who reaches the best that life holds for him reaches it through some Desert of Waiting.

I have to be by myself when I write, and I never know how long it will take. It is like making butter. Sometimes it will come in a few minutes, and sometimes I have to churn away for hours.

Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food.

That's all that death is ... Just a going away into another country ... Only the separation is harder to bear because there can be no letters to bridge the silence.

we are just as apt to meet the grandmothers as the wolves when we go traveling.

To callow wings no flight is too high to attempt. At sixteen all things are possible.

I’ve got something so lovely to think about that I’d like to go back and sit down in the garden, and just think and think until dark without being interrupted by anybody.