Even the bad books I write are satisfying. I'm my least critical reader. — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
I'm not a compulsive writer. I wish I could be compulsive about something. I have no regular writing routine. — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
“He guessed he wouldn’t mind being a book. Books just did what they were made to do, like stars just shining out… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
I was eighteen when I wrote my first book, and I can't remember what it was called. I have no idea where… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of outlining. Here's the theory: If I outline, then I can see the mistakes I'm liable to make.… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
My writing process often begins with a question. I write down ideas and let them stew for about a year. Then, when… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith College in Massachusetts,… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
I think writing is a part-time career, because otherwise you get a little stale, maybe even self-indulgent, when you have to fill… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
To see what books were available for my older students, I made many trips to the library. If a book looked interesting,… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
If I'm writing by intuition, generally that calculation works itself out. But if I'm writing a mystery, and somebody has to have… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
I got used to being a writer. To compare it to teaching - I taught for twenty-five years; for the first two… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it? — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share
“He knew it was perfect, and perfectly beautiful. He thought about how much she would like it. When he thought like that, happiness swelled… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share
“You were going to fall, you always did, but you had to get up fast and keep going.” — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share
People can be unimaginably foolish...and they can be unimaginably grand, at times. — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share
“And so I was. I can put on the cloak of the world I find myself in, however I happen to find myself in… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share
“The people they had been last summer, the person she had been--Dicey guessed she'd never be afraid again, not the way she had been… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share
“ I felt that the world itself had changed and that it would never be steady under my feet again. I felt I understood… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share
Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves. — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share
“Mina thought to herself, watching, her momma was the kind of woman she wanted to be, wherever else she got to in her life.” — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share
“The No filled the whole air of the house. Every time she breathed in she breathed in that No.” — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share
“Mina wanted some of the kind of love Momma gave to her children, where love was the first and deepest thing, and the questions… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share
