Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder (7 February 1867 – 10 February 1957) was an American writer, most famous for the Little House series of children's novels based on her childhood in a pioneer family.
 * See also:
 * Little House on the Prairie (TV series)

Quotes

 * I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
 * "A Bouquet of Wild Flowers", article published in the Missouri Ruralist (20 July 1917)


 * Now is now. It can never be a long time ago.
 * Little House in the Big Woods (1932), Ch. 13


 * The Little House books are stories of long ago. The way we live and your schools are much different now, so many changes have made living and learning easier. But the real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures and to be cheerful and have courage when things go wrong.
 * Letter to children (February 1947)

Little Town on the Prairie (1941)

 * There's no great loss without some small gain.
 * Ch. 9; said by Ma, after Pa lost the corn crop to blackbirds but brought home some of the birds for dinner.

Misattributed
Verified by the Laura Ingalls Wilder museum curators - Laura Ingalls Wilder did not write these words. The "Remember Me, part 1" TV episode was written by both Michael Landon and Blanche Hanalis. The words were spoken by the character of Rev. Alden as Julia's funeral.
 * Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.
 * Michael Landon, in Little House on the Prairie (TV series), Season 2, Ep 8 (5 November 1975) "Remember Me", Part 1

Quotes about Wilder

 * If you look at other so-called children’s authors, you’ll see they never wrote directly for children. Though Lewis Carroll dedicated his book to Alice, I feel it was an afterthought once the whole was already committed to paper. Beatrix Potter declared, “I write to please myself!” And I think the same can be said of Milne or Tolkien or Laura Ingalls Wilder.
 * P. L. Travers, author of the Mary Poppins stories, in The Paris Review No. 86 (Winter 1982)