I have always been an obsessive reader – I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.
The way glass can be molded or blown or cut into any kind of shape made me think about how we as people – our characters or souls – can be shaped or changed by outside influences.
Now the line was drawn. Lucy had never thought that one of the fiercest battles of her life would be fought over a breakfast table, with quiet words carefully chosen.
I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess – technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.
Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.
She heard the trace of fear in his voice. The fear that a small boy must have felt when every woman he loved had disappeared from his life, swept away by a merciless fever. She didn’t know how to reassure him, or how to console his long-ago grief.
I’ve never had any objection to appearing depraved or villainous. But I draw the line at looking like a prize idiot.
Well, it may be humorous to you, but it’s a very serious matter to the squirrels.
I don’t have any mottoes. If I did I would forever be contradicting them.
Baptists don’t spend their time thinking about reality.
Whereas I will be with a wicked, handsome Rom who will keep me warm all night.
I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.
It’s difficult for most of us to be completely honest with ourselves – we hate to admit how vulnerable or needful we are.
Thunderstorms and rainbows wrapped together in a convenient pocket-sized parcel.
Sooner or later everyone was driven to love someone they could never have.
One could pick apart love, examine every filament of attraction, and still it would never be fully explained. It simply was.
My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I’ve never know anyone like you.
There’s only one thing a bully respected: bigger bully.
I’ve needed someone like you for a long time. Now that I have you, no one is going to take you from me. Logan to Madeline.
The audience falls in love with a leading man because he’ll never belong to any of them.