Adam Gidwitz Quotes

United States, Author
February 14, 1982

Adam Gidwitz is the author of the best selling children's books A Tale Dark and Grimm (2010), In a Glass Grimmly (2012), and The Grimm Conclusion (2013), all published by Dutton Penguin. He received a 2017 Newbery Honor for The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog (2016).

I'd say all mirrors are magical, or can be. They show you yourself after all. Really seeing yourself, though, that's the hard part.

Adam Gidwitz
- Yourself
- Show
- Mirrors
For, in life, it is in the darkest zones one finds the brightest beauty and the most luminous wisdom.

Adam Gidwitz
- Beauty
- Darkest
- Zones

You see, to find the brightest wisdom one must pass through the darkest zones. And through the darkest zones there can be no guide. No guide, that is, but courage.

Adam Gidwitz
- Wisdom
- Darkest
- Zones
Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME!

Adam Gidwitz
- Awesome
- Fairytales
There is this weird thing that happens, when you stop worrying so much about what other people think of you...you suddenly start seeing what you think of you.

Adam Gidwitz
- People
- Think
- Worrying
But beware, dear reader. For we go out into the wide, wild world, looking to change, looking to grow, looking for wisdom. But wisdom is hard to come by, and once achieved, it is very easily lost. Especially when one is leaving the wide, wild world - and returning to the place you once fled.

Adam Gidwitz
- World
- Wisdom
- Grow
Home is where you can be yourself.

Adam Gidwitz
- Home
- Yourself
Maybe I've been wanting the wrong things.

Adam Gidwitz
- Things
- Wrong
- Wanting