Shannon Hale Quotes about Writing

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Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

Shannon Hale

Writing, Castles, Firsts

Twitter post from Mar 1, 2011

As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.

Shannon Hale

Writing, Inconvenient

In some ways, I don’t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read and write, I was making up stories. I love reading and I love telling stories, and the times in my life when I’ve tried to ignore that part of me, I’ve gone a little crazy. Characters start tugging on my sleeves, words start haunting me, and I feel generally unsatisfied. Really, being a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.

Shannon Hale

Crazy, Reading, Writing

I am not sure I am ready to know what I think about that, so I dare not write it out.

Shannon Hale

Writing, Thinking, Dare

Shannon Hale (2012). “Princess Academy: Palace of Stone”, p.130, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only person I'm trying to please.

Shannon Hale

Writing, Trying, Would Be

Shannon Hale Quotes about Writing

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