Patricia MacLachlan Quotes

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What is perfect? Journey, a thing doesn't have to be perfect to be fine. That goes for a picture. That goes for life....Things can be good enough.

Patricia MacLachlan

I, myself, write to change my life, to make it come out the way I want it to. But other people write for other reasons: to see more closely what it is they are thinking about, what they may be afraid of. Sometimes writers write to solve a problem, to answer their own question. All these reasons are good reasons. And that is the most important thing I'll ever tell you. Maybe it is the most important thing you'll ever hear. Ever.

Patricia MacLachlan

All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad.

Patricia MacLachlan

Life is made up of circles... Life is not a straight line... And sometimes we circle back to a past time. But we are not the same. We are changed forever.

Patricia MacLachlan

You should know that there are some things for which there are no answers, no matter how beautiful the words may be.

Patricia MacLachlan

Patricia MacLachlan

Patricia MacLachlan

Born: March 3, 1938

Died: March 31, 2022 (aged 84)

Bio: Patricia "Patty" MacLachlan was an American children's writer, who was best known for the 1986 Newbery Medal-winning novel Sarah, Plain and Tall which was later adapted as a TV movie starring Glenn Close and Christopher Walken.

Known for:

Sarah, Plain and Tall (1985)
Skylark (1994)
Caleb (2001)
Edward's Eyes (2007)
All the Places to Love (1994)

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