Gail Carson Levine Quotes
Top 77 wise famous quotes and sayings by Gail Carson Levine
Gail Carson Levine Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Gail Carson Levine on Wise Famous Quotes.
I love having written. Sometimes I love writing. I love to revise. Revising is my favorite part of writing.
I wished she'd never stop squeezing me. I wished I could spend the rest of my life as a child, being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.
I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.
As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
I'm more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor!
I'm solitary as a pulled tooth, Lonely as an unwelcome truth, Lost as a minnow out of school, A genius in a crop of fools.
Curse made a rebel of me. Or perhaps I was that way naturally. Mother rarely insisted I do anything. Father
I was no hero. The dearest wishes of my heart were for safety and tranquility. The world was a perilous place, wrong for the likes of me.
I had been able to break the curse myself. I'd had to have reason enough, love enough to do it, to find the will and the strength.
Perhaps you couldn't help being angry... but you could certainly stop yourself from repaying one offense with another.
Perhaps we can come here together someday. By the way, you're a month older than the last time I saw you. Are you still too young to marry.
No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden.
My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.
My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.
I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em.
I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.
My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage.
If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.
My good ideas are shy. But if they see that I treat the stupid ideas with respect, they come forward.
I write fiction for lots of reasons. One is power. I'm in charge when I write. So are you. You create the world of the story. You make the rules.