Willie Duppstadt

“Well, here’s the shocker,” said Kirby. “Majors Miller and McKinsey believe our former Captain Paul Remmich is acting as a spy for the Iraqi government.”
― Karl Braungart, Counter Identity

“What on earth did you say to Isola? She stopped in on her way to pick up Pride and Prejudice and to berate me for never telling her about Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Why hadn't she known there were better love stories around? Stories not riddled with ill-adjusted men, anguish, death and graveyards!”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Wordy! I enjoy description—I like words, and words are the tools that writers use, just like paint is the tool that artists use. I think words are fun, and I have a lot of fun using them. I know that a lot of kids think my stories start very slowly, and I expect that’s true. But that’s the way I like to read stories, so when I’m writing them I can do what I want! I say that to kids in schools, and they are very generous—they say, “That’s true. You can do what you want. It’s your story.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting