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~ LIBRARIAN / WRITER ~ CAROLYN M JOHNSON ~

(This web site is a work in progress - so check back now and then)

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SOME FAVORITE QUOTES

"The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what [her] subject has to tell [her]" - Rachel Carson

"A word is..." - Emily Dickinson                                                                                   {#1212 in Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas Johnson}

"A Book is..." and "every Page" is... -  Emily Dickinson  {#160 in New Poems of Emily Dickinson edited by William Schurr, Anna Dunlap, and Emily Grey Schurr}

"Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book [s/he] finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his [or her] ear." [Ralph Waldo Emerson in "Success" from "Society and Solitude" (1870)]

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."                   - Robert Frost

"...in the Whispering Chamber of Imagination... softly sleeps the calm Ideal" [a paraphrase of a statement by a "lady in the wig" in Charles Dickens' novel "Martin Chuzzlewit"]

"WHAT is she writing? Watch her now / How fast her fingers move / How eagerly her youthful brow / Is bent in thought above! // O look again! / Still fixed her eye, / Unsmiling, earnest, still, / And fast her pen and fingers fly, / Urged by her eager will.... // Her soul is in the absorbing task...."  - from THE LETTER [a poem by Charlotte Bronte]

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A "blueprint for children's writing: whether your submission is fiction or nonfiction, a successful manuscript revolves around the three E's - Education, Enrichment and Entertainment" [excerpt from Amy O'Neil's Spotlight On Kid's Markets in Writers Digest          - Special Issue - You Can Write For Children, June 2003)

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Maybe A Definition of a Library - "The room is quiet / thoughts alone / people its mute tranquility" (from The Teacher's Monologue by Charlotte Bronte)

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