“There's nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself." Professor Piper” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“When I’m writing my own stuff, it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Well, I'm writing everything that isn't my final project, so that when I actually sit down to write it, that's all that… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can't quite keep… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“There are different kinds of talent. Maybe your talent is in interpretation. Maybe you're a stylist.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
She’d majored in English, hoping that meant she could spend the next four years reading and writing. And maybe the next four… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I take something that happened to me in 1983, and I make it happen to somebody else in 1943. I pick my… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
It felt good to be writing in her own room, in her own bed. To get lost in the World of Mages… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“How many people make a career out of writing anyway?' Cath snapped. She felt like everything inside her was snapping. Her nerves.… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Everybody drinks," she said calmly. The Only Rational One. "Your sister doesn't." When rolled her eyes. "Forgive me, but I'm not going… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Nick had cared about the story; Cath hadn’t. She’d cared about the writing. About the magic third thing that lived between them… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
If I had an author superpower, I would like to have the ability to stop time for everyone else. I feel like… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Nothing Alan Moore writes can be blah-blah-blahed," Park said solemnly. Eleanor shrugged and bit her lip. "I’m beginning to think you shouldn’t… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I feel like some sort of fiction-writing hobo, jumping trains and always hoping I'll find a good place to start a fire… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“One thing about writing this much… her brain never really shifted out of The World of Mages. When she sat down to… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“It felt good to be writing in her own room, in her own bed. To get lost in the World of Mages… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Ah." He set down his backpack and pulled out their notebook. "You're working on your final project?" "Indirectly," Cath said. "What does… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Why do we write fiction?" Professor Piper asked. Cath looked down at her notebook. To disappear.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“It's like John Lennon writing with... Taylor Swift instead of Paul McCartney.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
But the explanations fell apart in her hands. Everything true was too hard to write--he was too much to lose. Everything she… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“But I don't want to write my own fiction,' Cath said, as emphatically as she could. 'I don't want to write my… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Reagan was sitting up at Cath's desk when Cath woke up. "Are you awake?" "Have you been watching me sleep?" "Yes, Bella. Are you… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share
“Are you awake?” “Have you been watching me sleep?” “Yes, Bella. Are you awake?” “No.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share
“Someone was knocking on her windshield. Georgie lifted her head off the steering wheel. It was Kendrick. She couldn’t really hear what he was… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share
Maybe Park had paralyzed her with his ninja magic, his Vulcan handhold, and now he was going to eat her. That would be awesome. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share
“That person thought that wearing an ugly dress on the happiest day of someone else's life was just the beginning-the line you have to… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share
“Is this where you tell me that I'm a scoundrel, and I say that I think you like me because I'm a scoundrel? Because… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share
“Te informo de que mi respuesta a tus próximas doce afirmaciones va a ser: «¿Cómo dices?»” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share
He looked exactly like a rat. Like the human being version of a rat. Like the villain in a Don Bluth movie. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share
“Tell me more about the mountains, Georgie said, because she wasn't really sure what to ask. Because ' tell me where I went wrong'… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share
God, his chin. She wanted to make an honest woman of his chin. She wanted to lock it down. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share
“Wait, I really do need your help with this." He turned his computer monitor toward her and pointed. "Is this funny? It's a Snoopy/Snoop… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share
“You need to cool down first.” “I’m cool.” “Simon. You’re never cool.” “That hurts, Penny.” “It shouldn’t. It’s one of the reasons I love… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share
“She'd get out of the shower the next morning, and it would be written in the steam on the mirror. Dance. Dress. Try a… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share
