Quotes by Caroline B. Cooney

About Caroline B. Cooney:

Caroline B. Cooney is an American author of suspense, romance, horror, and mystery books for young adults.
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I thought of the parable of the prodigal son. We had made merry for the beloved child's return too - but what happens when the beloved child doesn't say she's sorry? The parable doesn't talk about that. Jesus figures of you're sorry. Jesus, I thought...

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It was darker in the tower than any place Devnee had ever been. The dark had textures, some velvet, some satin. The dark shifted positions. The dark continued to breathe. The breath of the tower lifted her clothing like the flaps of a tent, and sound...

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I actually thought you would be kind," said the vampire. "Go away!" screamed Devnee. He did not answer. "I didn't have to be kind," Devnee told him. "Victoria was kind for me." He laughed. "No one can be kind for you, my dear," said the vampire. "But...

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But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.

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She was a mind floating in an ocean of confusion.

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She had a sense of herself being brain dead: running on tubes and machines.

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I wonder why we always deny love. I remember in middle school, if you were accused of the crime of loving, you screamed denials constantly and stopped ever even looking at the boy you were accused of liking. The boys could destroy each other by yodel...

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People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong.

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She had never had a daydream that dreamed itself, like nightmares. That crawled out of her brain like a creature of the dark. A daymare.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

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Author Bio

  • NameCaroline B. Cooney
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornMay 10, 1947
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist