“It came naturally. I came from a family of strong women.”
On writing female characters, interview with Megan Abbott (2011)
2003–2016
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American young-adult and children's writer 1934–2016Related quotes

“I came from nowhere, and shall be
Strong, steadfast, swift, eternally”
"The Greater Cats"
Kings Daughter (1929)
Context: I came from nowhere, and shall be
Strong, steadfast, swift, eternally:
I am a lion, a stone, a tree,
And as the Polar star in me
Is fixed my constant heart on thee.
Ah, may I stay forever blind
With lions, tigers, leopards, and their kind.
“Translation came naturally to me because as a child I was translated from Germany to Britain.”
Interview with Lidia Vianu http://lidiavianu.scriptmania.com/Michael%20Hamburger.htm

It, and Other Stories (1927), ch. 1, p. 10.

quoted in Hamm (1979). Yesterdays, p. 391.
Middleton, Richard (1990/2002). Studying Popular Music. Philadelphia: Open University Press. .

“Like all boys my age, I was an idiot when it came to women.”
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 62, “Leaves” (p. 465)

“The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones.”