Rebecca Stead Quotes
Top 64 wise famous quotes and sayings by Rebecca Stead
Rebecca Stead Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I think things hit me very hard, and I wish I had allowed things to roll off my back a little bit more.
Anyone who's familiar with my writing schedule knows that there is always plenty of time between books for me!
As a reader, I much prefer to read a book where people embody all kinds of ideas and everybody is making mistakes.
Probably because I really love this bookmaking and storytelling world, I'd been thinking for years about the possibility of becoming a literary agent.
Why don't you and Patrick actually talk to each other?" Tab said. Em looked up. "Are you demented? And say what?
I guess my question is: Is the new you the stranger? Or is the stranger the person you leave behind? -Sherm
Life was anything but fast, in your opinion. If it went any more slowly, time would probably start to run backward.
Every published writer suffers through that first draft because most of the time, that's a disappointment.
Mostly what I try to do is build emotion. Only I'd prefer not to do it by telling you about emotion but by pushing that emotion down.
I try to write about internal experience versus the external self. I like to present ideas, but not package them neatly.
Nice tights, I snorted. Or I tried to snort, anyway. I'm not exactly sure how, though people in books are always doing it.
But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.
Mom's always telling me to smile and hoping I'll turn into a smiley person, which, to be honest, is kind of annoying.
We have lunch at ten-forty-five, Colin said. A stupidly early lunch. At our school, the older you get, the stupider your lunch period.
Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.
My books tend to have a lot of questions in them, and they tend to avoid black and white, for lack of a better metaphor.
Listening, you reflect that you are probably the worst person on the planet. But this is not exactly news.
Life was a too-tall stack of books that had started to lean to one side, and each new day was another book on top.
Beautiful and fresh, Girl Saves Boy is full of the absolute truth-life is complicated. I could not put it down.
The guy is looney,' Belle said thoughtfully, 'but also generally polite. Polite is always worth something.
A lot of my ideas for books come from newspaper articles. But I don't like to be actively looking for ideas.
But at the exact same time I got nervous about that, I also got this other feeling, which I can only describe of as love for Annemarie's elevator.
There was no black line separating Colorado from Utah. There was no black line between friendship and whatever might come next.
It was hard to imagine him sneaking around and leaving a rose on anyone's doormat, but I guess boys will surprise you sometimes.
'Middle school' is used as shorthand for a time when things change. It's a time a lot of kids feel like they don't even have one good friend.
The wonderful thing about writing fiction is that no one is stopping you. There's no one saying, 'You can't do that.'
It is, actually," Sherm said, looking her straight in the eyes, the way he had during the intruder drill. "Best thing ever.
Love is when you like someone so much that you can't just call it "like," so you have to call it "love.
During the week,I'm really focused on writing and output. Sunday is a day when I really try not to write at all.
People act like riddles are hard, but real life is harder. In real life, there are always more than two doors -Sherm