Like every beginner, I thought you could beat, pummel, and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity and dies.
Ray Bradbury
Quotes
I love writing that is honest, clear, passionate. I love a book that takes me to a place of mind and heart that I did not know before I read it.
Katherine Paterson
I love writing that is
Absolutely everything in Clementine was something that my children said. I rolled the two of them together into one character. So it’s not really fair to say I wrote the book, as my son and daughter are always pointing out.
Sara Pennypacker
Absolutely everything in Clementine
A story’s ending is like a dessert: good or bad, it colors the rest of the meal.
unknown
A storys ending is like
In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.
Meg Rosoff