Authors
Rudyard Kipling
1865 – 1936
Rudyard Kipling was a British writer born in India whose adventure stories, including The Jungle Book and Just So Stories, have delighted children for over a century. He filled his tales with talking animals, faraway jungles, and playful explanations of how things came to be, like how the elephant got its trunk. In 1907 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he remains the youngest writer ever to receive it.
Quotes
“Fiction is Truth's elder sister.”
“If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; … Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!”
“But remember, please, the Law by which we live, We are not built to comprehend a lie, We can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die!”
“Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes, It will vanish and the stars will shine again, Because, for all our power and weight and size, We are nothing more than children of your brain!”