Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.
Shannon Hale
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Shannon Hale
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 26
Author
Fantasy Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Choices
Sound
Professional
Really
Illness
Like
Sounds
Mental
Choice
Writer
Becoming
More quotes by Shannon Hale
He nodded. And if I don't make you feel like the most beautiful woman in the world every day of your life, then I don't deserve to be near you.
Shannon Hale
My friends call me by my name. You don't have any friends. I don't want you to be my friend, Selia, or my servant, not now. I thought you were both. You have let me know I was wrong. So are you to treat me so. You are wrong.
Shannon Hale
Here's the thing about home: you can create it most anywhere, as long as you gather your people around you.
Shannon Hale
Make haste” Jane added, just because she always wanted to say that.
Shannon Hale
His brothers could tease him about his height or the number of scars he was collecting on his body. He could take the joke when they said he would die having never won a fair wrestling match. But the topic of Bettin still smarted too much. He'd imagined being with her always. Now when he closed his eyes, he had trouble imagining anything else.
Shannon Hale
If we're mad, we're mad in large numbers, at least larger than yours.
Shannon Hale
She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.
Shannon Hale
Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn.
Shannon Hale
Listen to your second thought, or the third might be too late.
Shannon Hale
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
I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down.
Shannon Hale
I know I would crumble if I lost you.
Shannon Hale
How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery rhyme. Bizarre and adorable? Just like you. With rings in your pockets and bells on your toes Ooh, I should really invest in some toes bells.
Shannon Hale
You've been quiet lately...but it's not so much the quiet as something inside the quiet.
Shannon Hale
I always knew it was ill-fated, but he truly believed I would be his bride. I guess I'd never realized that before. He had taken my mucker hand and looked at my mottled face and believed we would wed. And he hadn't seemed sorry. In fact, he'd swooped me up in a corridor and kissed me. That set me to crying.
Shannon Hale
And Isi always listened, never told Enna she had been foolish, never said hollow things like 'You'll be all right.' . . . Isi saw Enna's struggle and her sadness, and she understood.
Shannon Hale
Hey, times are tough, and thirty gold coins can do a lot of good. But I guess you wouldn't know about needing money, since you grew up like a little princ... (Rapunzel glares) Prin... soner. I mean, prisoner! A prisoner in a tower, such a shame, that.
Shannon Hale
They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and too sad to hold together.
Shannon Hale
You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.
Shannon Hale
My ma says a rock lasts forever, but people don’t, and that’s what makes them more precious.
Shannon Hale