Betsy Byars
Betsy Byars
Betsy Cromer Byarsis an American author of children's books. Her novel Summer of the Swans won the 1971 Newbery Medal. She has also received a National Book Award in category Children's Fiction for The Night Swimmers and an Edgar Award for Wanted ... Mud Blossom...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth7 August 1928
CountryUnited States of America
animal hobbies quiet
My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals.
people faults turns
The people you don't know turn out to be exactly like the people you do know, same faults, same everything.
growing-up real pet
the real reason I had wanted to grow up, the main reason I had been willing to even consider becoming an adult, was so I could have as many pets as I wanted.
book reading writing
For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.
cute smart thinking
I think how you look is the most important thing in the world. If you look cute, you are cute; if you look smart, you are smart, and if you don't look like anything, you aren't anything.
baseball writing piano
Writing is like anything - baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get. But it seems to take a longer time to get better at writing than hammering nails.
book thinking looks
When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I’ll have a book.
added best children decided early enjoy feeling felt gave hold incentive readers time valued
Early in my career, I decided not to do sequels. I know that children enjoy them, but I valued the feeling that this was the only time I would write about these characters. I felt it gave me an added incentive to do my best by them, to tell readers everything I knew, to hold nothing back.
love
I love writing. I've pursued it with a passion.
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My husband has some very interesting hobbies, and through him, I've learned to fly and earned my pilot's license. Together, we fly all over the United States. Since our children are all grown now, we also travel a great deal in Europe, but we take commercial flights because our plane is not really equipped to make transatlantic flights.