63 Quotes by Caroline B. Cooney

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

Listen to the sea... it sounds like a coffin being dragged over broken glass.

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

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

The sea can smack the rocks like a hand smacking a cheek. It can hiss or gurgle or even kiss. But when it wants, it can go quiet. ‘And then’, said Anya Rothrock, ‘you can hear the voices of the drowned’.

I’m one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me.

My favorite book is always the one I’m working on at the moment.

Bianca and Mindy crept into the room like great big fashionable mice.

The most crippling part of my personality is that as much as I want to know something, I can’t bear admitting I’m ignorant. It’s as if I think I should have been born knowing and understanding all. As if when I say out loud, what are you talking about? the world will point and jeer.