4 Quotes & Sayings By Laurie Viera Rigler

Laurie Viera Rigler is a writer and journalist who has authored more than fifty books, including the Little House on the Prairie series, the Newbery Honor Award winner, and the National Book Award finalist, The Disappearance of Winter. Rigler was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1975 and the Black Caucus of the American Library Association's highest honor in 1989. She has written for The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book World, USA Today, and The Houston Chronicle. She holds honorary doctorates from Southern Methodist University and New York University.

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But see, that's the thing about movies. Nothing is left to the imagination. You read a book, and you see a picture of the characters and the scenes in your mind. You don't have that with a movie. It's all either up there on the screen laid out for you, or it isn't there at all. Laurie Viera Rigler
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You know, it is a little known fact that thinking is entirely overrated. The world would be a much better place if we all did a lot less of it. Laurie Viera Rigler
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I would self-medicate with fat, carbohydrates, and Jane Austen, my number one drug of choice, my constant companion through every breakup, every disappointment, every crisis. Men might come and go, but Jane Austen was always there in sickness and in health, for richer, for poorer, till death do us part. Laurie Viera Rigler