Patricia Polacco Quotes

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Patricia Polacco

Profession : Author

Birth : July 11, 1944

I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

Patricia Polacco

My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.

Patricia Polacco

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

Patricia Polacco

My stories are fundamentally about the love of family.

Patricia Polacco

When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.

Patricia Polacco

I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.

Patricia Polacco

Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.

Patricia Polacco