Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs Quotes

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!

It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.

I don't believe it pays to be a great author.

This new book is going to get itself finished— and published! You see if it doesn't.

Eleven pages— this is a letter! Have courage. I'm going to stop.

I saw a street car conductor today with one brown eye and one blue. Wouldn't he make a nice villain for a detective story?