Quotes By Author: Shannon Hale
“I’m writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.”
“The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But when I think about it practically, I am glad it’s a struggle. I am (as usual) attempting to write a book that’s too hard for me. I’m telling a story I’m not smart enough to tell. The risk of failure is huge. But I prefer it this way. I’m forced to learn, forced to smarten myself up, forced to wrestle. And if it works, then I’ll have written something that is better than I am.”
“Being a writer is a good, good thing.”
“He smiled in a way that made me want to kiss him right on the spot. Or the lips. Whichever was closer.”
“What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was.It is like all my life I thought the sky was green.”
“You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.”