Nancy Farmer Quotes

I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again.

The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still walking around.

I lost my dad in 2009 and on my album 'Feels,' it's about all different feels.

So that's what I'm here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind of sadness you feel at the end of summer. When the fireflies are gone, the ponds have dried up and the plants are wilted, weary from being so green.

When my mother first passed away some time ago, I didn't enjoy food anymore. I just ate to live. My mother had always cooked so well that I didn't think I could follow her.

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.

I sat down and wrote what I remembered about being nine, and that eventually became 'Amelia's Notebook.'

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.

Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.

'I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good.

I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.

'Cinderella' touches on loss, and there was definitely a strong sense of grief in my life.

I have a, you know, a John Ritter-shaped hole in my heart. Nobody can replace that.

I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.

It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.

I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.

I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people around me, so you just sort of keep this antenna up and on the lookout for things to say.

I remember 'The Yearling' was the first film I ever saw, and my mom told me I cried for about four or five days afterwards. I'd be going along during the day and suddenly start crying over what had happened to the little deer.

A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.

Life is a very emotional experience.