“A long time ago, in a town with which I used to be familiarly acquainted, there dwelt an elderly person of grim aspect, known by the name and title of Doctor Grimshawe, whose household consisted of a remarkably pretty and vivacious boy, and a perfect rosebud of a girl, two or three years younger than he, and an old maid of all work, of strangely mixed breed, crusty in temper and wonderfully sluttish in attire.” YearsPersonsLongTwoBookUsedGirlThreeNamesPerfectKnownBoysLong TimeAspectDoctorsTownsUsed To BeTitlesTemperThree YearsHouseholdLong Time AgoElderlyGrimMaidsAttireOld MaidsRosebudsVivacious Book:Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)
“There's just something "off" about equating the act of spending three years writing a book with the act of someone exploiting themselves by drunkenly flashing the camera for "Girls Gone Wild" or something.” WritingYearsBookGirlThreeGoneCamerasSpendingThree YearsWriting A Book Author:Marie Calloway
“Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for Seesaw Girl, eight months for Shard, three years for When My Name Was Keoko! The publisher takes another year and a half to work on the book, so altogether each book can take up to three or four years to publish.” WritingYearsBookDifferentGirlThreeNamesHalfTakenFourMonthsEightLengthThree YearsFour YearsPublishersPublishAnother YearSeesaw Author:Linda Sue Park
“The childhood that Paul and Clara Jobs created for their new son was, in many ways, a stereotype of the late 1950s. When Steve was two they adopted a girl they named Patty, and three years later they moved to a tract house in the suburbs.” WayYearsTwoJobsGirlThreeHouseChildhoodSonLateMovedThree YearsStereotypeAdoptedSuburbsClara Book:Steve Jobs Source: Steve Jobs
“I was not yet three years old when my mother determined to send one of my elder sisters to learn to read at a school for girls we call the Amigas. Affection, and mischief, caused me to follow her, and when I observed how she was being taught her lessons I was so inflamed with the desire to know how to read, that deceiving - for so I knew it to be - the mistress, I told her that my mother had meant for me to have lessons too. ... I learned so quickly that before my mother knew of it I could already read.” KnowsYearsSchoolMotherDesireGirlThreeKnow HowTaughtLessonsAffectionDeterminedThree YearsDeceivingEldersMistressMischiefThree Year Olds Author:Juana Inés de la Cruz