Natalie Zane Moore, Natalie Babbitt
28 July 1932 – 31 October 2016
Birthplace: Dayton, Ohio
American author & illustrator
“Readers are lucky – they will never be bored or lonely.”
~Natalie Babbitt, American author
Contribution to Once Upon a Time…Celebrating the Magic of Children’s Books in Honor of the Twentieth Anniversary of Reading is Fundamental (1986) New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, p. 45
Extended excerpt [Essay contribution to a collection honoring the Reading is Fundamental (RIF) program]:
“With books, your inner world has no walls. And in reading – and writing – stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance to do in ordinary life. It’s amazing that those twenty-six little marks of the alphabet can arrange themselves on the pages of a book and accomplish all that. Readers are lucky – they will never be bored or lonely.” (p. 45)
Source: Library – Once Upon A Time… (1986) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 03-992-13694
Misattributed to Natalie Babbitt –
“Don’t be afraid of death…be afraid of an unlived life. You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live.”
~Jeffrey Lieber & James V. Hart, American screenwriters
Tuck Everlasting (2002) Film adaptation of 1975 book Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt; Walt Disney Pictures, Director Jay Russell; line spoken by actor William Hurt in role of ‘Angus Tuck’; film preview online via Movieclips Classic Trailers & YouTube, www.youtube.com
Misattibution notes:
Although the Jeffrey Lieber & James V. Hart screenplay is based closely on author Natalie Babbitt’s original version of Tuck Everlasting, Babbitt’s 1975 book does not include the line cited here. Lieber & Hart should be attributed as the quote authors.
Extended excerpt [Screenplay dialogue. Character ‘Angus Tuck’ to ‘Winnie Foster.’]:
“Don’t be afraid of death, Winnie, be afraid of an unlived life.”
Source note: Cited line is spoken at approximately 1:40 minutes in the Tuck Everlasting official film preview. Please see ‘Source Link’ tab for video link.
Source link: “Tuck Everlasting (2002) Official Trailer #1” (2002) Disney movie preview; online via Movieclips Classic Trailers & YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXbbAbDvifw
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