“Mrs. Leene says I should think about people in the present tense. “It forces you to take responsibility for them,” she says.”
“She says that the problem with passive people is that they force you to take action. After that, they hate you for it. They never forgive you.”
“You’re not responsible for what people think about you. But you’re responsible for what you give them to think about you.”
“You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.”
“When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back..”
“I mean, what can you say about how you write your books? What I mean is, first you've got to think of something, and then when you've thought of it you've got to force yourself to sit down and write it. That's all." ~ Mrs. Oliver”