38 Quotes by Ann M. Martin

I hoped that Mary Anne, Claudia, Stacey, and I – the Baby Sitters Club – would stay together for a long time.

There’s so many different kinds of rights to consider these days: computer, e-book, all sorts of things. Forget foreign rights and entertainment rights. There are so many things to consider and an agent is going to know how to wade through all that much better than you are.

If you’re very serious about writing it’s helpful to find an agent. It’s becoming more and more competitive to have your manuscript even looked at by an editor. Many companies don’t accept unsolicited manuscripts anymore, so they’ll pay more attention to something that comes in through an agent.

I love to read, and I don’t believe that you have to finish one book before you start another. – Mallory Pike.

It was the kind of terrified look that reminds you that no matter how rational or grown up a person might seem, some part of him is absolutely sure – knows – that an evil other-world exists just outside of our regular, everyday world. And that although we don’t expect that world to collide with our calm, predictable one... well, really, at any moment that is exactly what might happen.

I really loved this book. I did for a school book report last year and I really got into it I just couldnt take my eyes of! You really absolutley need to read this book!

I think beaches kind of get in your blood, and if you grow up near one you never feel quite right when you’re away from it.

By the time I reached school, I was shaking. I felt as if my entire world had warped and twisted like a funhouse mirror. Nothing was the same as it had been a month ago.

Stacey is glamorous. She moved to Stoneybrook, Connecticut, from New York City last summer. She’s very sophisticated, and is even allowed to have her hair professionally styled, so that she has this fabulous-looking shaggy blonde mane, and she wears the neatest clothes – big, baggy shirts and tight-fitting pants – and amazing jewelry, like parrots and palm trees. She even has a pair of earrings that consist of a dog for one ear and a bone for the other ear.