Blue Balliett Quotes

United States, Author
1955

Blue Balliett is an American author, best known for her award-winning novel for children, Chasing Vermeer. She was born Elizabeth Balliett, but her family started calling her Blue shortly after her birth.

Every book is a box of ideas.

Blue Balliett
- Book
- Ideas
- Boxes
The greatest art belongs to the world. Do not be intimidated by the experts. Trust your instincts. Do not be afraid to go against what you were taught, or what you were told to see or believe. Every person, every set of eyes, has the right to the truth.

Blue Balliett
- World
- Believe
- Art

You will come to agree with me.

Blue Balliett
- Agree
Passing time isn't a steady thing. People try to measure it, but some days seem to have years packed into them, and others pass in the blink of an eye. Some days matter, and others don't.

Blue Balliett
- People
- Trying
- Eye
I love the way a list makes a big hodgepodge of things simmer down and behave.

Blue Balliett
- Way
- Down
- Bigs
What was a foreigner, anyway? Is the place you're born the only place you really belong? At what point do you stop being from "away" and start being from "here"?

Blue Balliett
- Born
- Foreigners