Caroline B. Cooney

“If I were a seagullI wouldn't have to stick aroundIf people argued- I would fly off,swerve, wheel, dip, scream.a thousand wings of company if I have friendstwo strong wings of my ownIf I don't”

“I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.”

“I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career.”

“I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.”

“I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun.”

“I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up.”

“My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment.”

“She had never had a daydream that dreamed itself, like nightmares. That crawled out of her brain like a creature of the dark. A daymare.”

“She was a mind floating in an ocean of confusion.”

“I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys.”

“She had a sense of herself being brain dead: running on tubes and machines.”

“Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.”

“But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.”

“I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me.”

“They ended up at the Old Corner Bookstore, which Brian had read about in a tour guide to Boston. "Longfellow and Hawthorne and Oliver Wendell Holmes used to read here. Let's go in." Brian nudged the girls until they obeyed.It was a regular bookstore, less history-minded than Brian had expected. In fact, the local history shelves were quite mangeable. I'll buy one book, he thought. This will get me launched in actual reading. Out of the zillions of choices, I'll find one here.Brian picked out Paul Revere and the World He Lived In. It was thick and somehow exciting, with its chapter headings and scholarly notes and bibliography.”

“I actually thought you would be kind," said the vampire."Go away!" screamed Devnee.He did not answer."I didn't have to be kind," Devnee told him. "Victoria was kind for me."He laughed."No one can be kind for you, my dear," said the vampire. "But I don't mind, of course. I have you now. There's no escape, my dear. You and I, Devnee Fountain, are a team.”

“I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.”

“People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's.”

“If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.”

“I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings.”