L. Frank Baum Quotes About Fame

Quotes about: Fame

• I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp...

  L. Frank Baum

  Fame, Wisps, I Have Learned

  "The Making of the Wizard of Oz". Book by Aljean Harmetz, 1998.

• Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me. When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children. For aside from my evident inability to do anything "great," I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp which, when caught, is not worth the possession; but to please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.

  L. Frank Baum

  Sweet, Children, Book

  Introduction to "The Lost Princess of Oz", 1917.

• When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children.

  L. Frank Baum

  Children, Book, Writing

  Personal inscription on a copy of "Mother Goose in Prose", "The Making of the Wizard of Oz", Book by Aljean Harmetz, 1977.

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