I never want to forget that if Lewis Carroll had asked me whether or not he should bother writing about a little girl named Alice who fell asleep and dreamed that she had a lot of adventures down a rabbit hole, it would not have sounded awfully tempting to any editor.

— Ursula Nordstrom

Ursula Nordstrom Quotes

That is the creative artist – a penalty of the creative artist – wanting to make order out of chaos.

— Ursula Nordstrom

Emotion combined with an artist’s discipline is the rarest thing in the world.

— Ursula Nordstrom

The creative artist is the one wanting to make order out of chaos. The rest of us just accept disorder -if we even recognize it- and get a bang out of our five beautiful senses, if we’re lucky.

— Ursula Nordstrom

The grave’s a fine and quiet place but none I think do finish their books from there.

— Ursula Nordstrom

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I never want to forget that if Lewis Carroll had asked me whether or not he should bother writing about a little girl named Alice who fell asleep and dreamed that she had a lot of adventures down a rabbit hole, it would not have sounded awfully tempting to any editor.

— Ursula Nordstrom

Most books are written from the outside in, but “Where the Wild Things Are” comes from the inside out. I think Maurice’s book is the first picture book to recognize the fact that children have powerful emotions: anger and love and hate. And only after all that passion, the wanting to be ’where someone loved him best of all.

— Ursula Nordstrom

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