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Eleanor Estes

“Like bees who by instinct go from flower to flower gathering honey, writers, merely by being alive, are constantly gathering ideas and impressions — their honey — which eventually will lodge somewhere in some books ...”
- Eleanor Estes,
- "Gathering Honey," in The Horn Book Magazine (1969)

Eleanor Estes, U.S. children's writer, Newbery winner

(1906 - 1988)