Quotes from Caroline B. Cooney

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

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

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

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.

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

What more can life hold, than to know that because of your story, somebody out there has decided to read again!

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 decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

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

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

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

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

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

She wanted love, adventure, and wild, fierce emotions that would batter her, as storms battered the island. I am thirteen, Christina thought, I am ready. I want it all.

Don't they look like ancient island princesses, marked out for sacrifice? Sent away for the sake of the islanders, to be given to the sea?

I have this terrible fear of fractions, Christina told him. ... Miss Schuyler thinks she can conquer it. Also a fear of running out of popcorn. Nothing could be worse than going to a movie and they don't have any popcorn, you know?

father knocked on her door. "Kitten? May I come

wanted is a good action book

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'.

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

Sometimes Reeve couldn't stand women. They were so practical.

You had to assume that his body would grow to match, in which case Stephen would become a man of splendid proportions.

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.