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Robert McCloskey Quotes

Type: Author Quotes Category: American Author Quotes Date of Birth: September 14, 1914 Date of Death: June 30, 2003 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Robert McCloskey Related Authors: Henry David Thoreau Mark Twain Gertrude Stein Henry Miller Helen Keller Edwin Louis Cole F. Scott Fitzgerald Susan Sontag

Because its hard to realize now that that was the end of the great depression, you know. All of a sudden all of this is in front of me and I'm solvent, you know. I'm making some money and I know where my next meal is coming from, and I have a new pair of shoes and that's it. Robert McCloskey I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world where ducks are crossing the street. Robert McCloskey I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. Robert McCloskey I lived with them in my studio in New York. And of course if I were doing that book today or even ten years, fifteen years later, I would have gone to where the wild ducks were and where I could study them - I would have gone to the country somewhere. Robert McCloskey It was more exciting to get that first book published, I think. Robert McCloskey That was the - It was an exciting time because it was as though I was sort of tied up in a paper bag or in a gunny sack with a rope around the neck of it, and all of a sudden with the acceptance of that first book everything sort of spilled out! Robert McCloskey

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