Quotes from Sarah Rees Brennan

When people talk about being a writer, the first words that come to mind are glamour and artistic parties like Charles Dickens used to mix cocktails for.

I love seeing my book on shelves and getting letters from people who liked the book. I love telling stories and having other people tell stories to me.

Home in Ireland, I went to Collins Barracks and spent some time wandering around, making notes on the various guns, knives and swords.

Jared told her he used to be an exotic dancer in San Francisco.' 'My body is a gift from God,' Jared said gravely. 'Except for my hips, which are clearly a gift from the devil.

For a moment, they all stood staring at each other. Then Holly shattered the stillness by throwing herself at Angela. "God, Angie!" she exclaimed, arms locked around her neck. "What Happened?

One of the lambs fixed its attention on Jared. "Baa," it flirted. "Boo," said Jared. "Oh my God, Jared. Don't tough-talk the lambs." "It was giving me a funny look.

Jared sidled up. He was not very good at sidling; he was more of a loomer.

I have a confession to make - I truly love country music.

Real life is sometimes boring, rarely conclusive and boy, does the dialogue need work.

I tend to get over-excited and very, very loud. I rein myself in when people flinch and dogs start howling.

I just think demons are terribly interesting! In Sumerian times, demons weren't seen as evil at all, just as incredibly powerful and very different from us: beings made of fire, when humans were made of earth.

Taking notes at a pub in Salisbury, I was mistaken for a health inspector!

When my book was first sent out to publishers, my agent told me to buy a lot of ice-cream and wait. So I bought a gigantic amount of ice-cream, and huddled by the freezer eating it and shaking, hoping someone would like it.

I am in full possession of the amazing power of being sarcastic.

Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.

Don't waste time blaming yourself when you can spend time planning how to destroy our enemies.

I only date college guys." "You don't know any college guys," Kami pointed out. Angela's gaze went to Kami, and she smiled. "Which leaves me with more time for napping.

Actually," Alan said, earnest and clear-eyed, "this is my first time playing poker.

Like any other person who reads a ton of books, I hate many, many books. Oh, how I hate them. I have performed dramatic readings of the books I hate. I have little hate summaries. I have hate impressions. I can act out, scene by hateful scene, some of these books. I can perform silent hate charades.

I'm a girl, so I've experienced dismissal because I was a girl or because I write about girls: my book with a guy protagonist is treated as more literary and worthy than my other books with girl protagonists.

Your soul is like the souls of a thousand monkeys on crack, all smushed together.

I think more people are going to continue reading YA as well as reading other books because they have learned that they can find books there which they will truly love: a teenage protagonist is close enough to adult so readers of whichever age can sympathise and empathise with them.

If I wasn't going to be a world-famous journalist and if I didn't have such respect for truth and justice, I could be an amazing master criminal.

If the truth didn't help anyone, and love didn't last, what was there left to struggle toward?