If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important. Gail Carson Levine More Quotes by Gail Carson Levine More Quotes From Gail Carson Levine I didn't think [Ella Enchanted] would get published. Everything I'd written till then had been rejected. If it was published, I thought it might sell a few thousand copies and go out of print. I thought if I was lucky I could write more books and get them published, too. I still pinch myself over the way things have worked out. Gail Carson Levine writingbookthinking I had to share a room with my sister, who is five and a half years older than I am. We didn't get along well, and I felt that I had no privacy. So books were my privacy, because no one could join me in a book, no one could comment on the action or make fun of it. I used to spend hours reading in the bathroom -- and we only had one bathroom in our small apartment! Gail Carson Levine readingfunbook I loved fairy tales as a kid. I've always been drawn to fantasy. They're always exciting. There's never a dull moment. I just love the embellishments and the magical stuff. It's such fun to work with and to re-imagine your own way. Gail Carson Levine funkidsdull I love having written. Sometimes I love writing. I love to revise. Revising is my favorite part of writing. Gail Carson Levine my-favoritewritingsometimes Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that you are used to heaping on yourself. Such self-bashing is never useful. If you indulge in it, your writing doesn't stand a chance. So when your mind turns on you, turn it back, stamp it down, shut it up, and keep writing. Gail Carson Levine stupidselfwriting If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em. Gail Carson Levine bores-youemswriting 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. Gail Carson Levine sawstogetherway He put his hand on my waist, and my heart began to pound, a rougher rhythm than the music. I held my skirt. Our free hands met. His felt warm and comforting and unsettling and bewildering--all at once. Gail Carson Levine heartlovehands To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely. Gail Carson Levine paragraph Kisses were better than potions. Gail Carson Levine kissing Would you favor me with a dance?" Over all the others I was his choice! I curtsied, and he took my hand. Our hands knew each other. Char looked at me, startled. "Have we met before, Lady? Gail Carson Levine favorschoiceshands No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden. My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead. Gail Carson Levine moodpleasurefear I rode all day. I cried all night. The moon didn’t glow. The sun didn’t rise. A comet blazed Between my eyes. West and South, Wind and rain. Every way is Just the same. Pray give me a box To hide inside. Pray give me a spade To dig my own grave. Gail Carson Levine eyemoonrain 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. Gail Carson Levine safetyheroheart that the book is really good. and theres a prince in it to. Gail Carson Levine book He bowed. 'The young lady must not dance alone. Gail Carson Levine young-ladiesyoung Voices and faces aren't manifestations of good or bad. Gail Carson Levine manifestationvoicefaces Oak, granite, Lilies by the road, Remember me? I remember you. Clouds brushing Clover hills, Remember me? Sister, child, Grown tall, Remember me? I remember you. Gail Carson Levine remember-youcloudschildren I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process. Gail Carson Levine hardestprocesswriting Crying is part of the adventure. Gail Carson Levine cryadventure
