Melissa Wiley

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Melissa Wiley

Melissa Wiley is the author of Inch and Roly Make a Wish and other books for children, including The Prairie Thief and two series of novels about the ancestors of Laura Ingalls Wilder. She lives in San Diego with her comic-book-writing husband, a half... Read full bio

Author Revealed:

Q. What is your motto or maxim?

A. Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire. -- W. B. Yeats

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Melissa Wiley Revealed

Revealing Questions

Q. How would you describe your life in only 8 words?: A. Small house, six kids, three thousand books: bliss.
Q. What is your motto or maxim?: A. Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire. -- W. B. Yeats
Q. What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing?: A. Gardening

On Books and Writing

Q. Who are your favorite authors?: A. L.M. Montgomery, Maud Hart Lovelace, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Elizabeth Goudge, A.S. Byatt, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Fred Chappell, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Madeleine L'Engle, Katharine S. White, Monica Furlong, and I could keep this up all day.