Rebecca Serle

The best way to get me to write more books is to read the ones that exist!

— Rebecca Serle

My favorite 'Eloise' book is probably 'Eloise in Paris.'

— Rebecca Serle

'When You Were Mine' is about heartbreak.

— Rebecca Serle

“You needed the secret kept for you more than I needed the truth to come out.”

— Rebecca Serle

It was always a dream of mine to create a show.

— Rebecca Serle

No love story ends or begins out of accordance with how it needs to go.

— Rebecca Serle

“What if the greatest love story ever told was the wrong one?”

— Rebecca Serle

“And what is more dramatic, really, than heartbreak?”

— Rebecca Serle

When someone around you succeeds, it does not mean they've taken that spot from you. What it means is that you are…

— Rebecca Serle

“Sometimes...the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing that you were never meant to have them.”

— Rebecca Serle

At its heart, 'Mostly Good Girls' is about the pressures we put on ourselves to live up to ideas of perfection.

— Rebecca Serle

Shakespeare is so fundamental to the way we see story. A tremendous amount of narratives come from him - more than many…

— Rebecca Serle

“There are things you cannot share with friends. Even best ones. Some secrets that are kinder just to keep.”

— Rebecca Serle

My first novel, 'When You Were Mine,' was a very, very personal story and drew a lot on the people in my…

— Rebecca Serle

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: writing picture books is an art - the art of word choice.

— Rebecca Serle

“Sometimes,’ he starts, ‘the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing you were never meant to have them.”

— Rebecca Serle

Picture books, while less in word count, are certainly not less important. There are unbelievably skillful authors writing in this vein. Authors…

— Rebecca Serle

You don't write a book. You write a sentence and then a paragraph and then a page and then a chapter. Looking…

— Rebecca Serle

I really am so grateful to get to do what it is I love - build worlds. Most of my job is…

— Rebecca Serle

American fantasy is not a genre we think about too often. Sure, we are familiar with the worlds of English boarding school…

— Rebecca Serle

Let me get something straight: I have no problem with ghostwriting as a thing unto itself. What bothers me is the way…

— Rebecca Serle

I'm a total fangirl for Nancy Meyers. I love all her movies - 'Something's Gotta Give,' 'Father of the Bride,' 'The Parent…

— Rebecca Serle

By refusing to lend a hand, we are not only robbing our colleagues and peers of the opportunity to gain guidance, but…

— Rebecca Serle

“Look, you think I like history because I’m fascinated with the possibilities, with how it could have happened, but you’re wrong. I…

— Rebecca Serle

“Sometimes this happens without warning. Like the magnitude of the past - of all that has happened - creeps into the space…

— Rebecca Serle

“I'm trying hard to remain composed. His face slackens, smooths out, and I can't help but run my eyes over his cheeks,…

— Rebecca Serle

“I've been working on my honesty this summer. I've told such a big lie, such a massively irreversible one, that I figure…

— Rebecca Serle

“I decide to take the subway uptown. I need some time to think, and I can never thing as well in cabs…

— Rebecca Serle

In her book 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead,' Sheryl Sandberg talks about the mentor/mentee relationship - and how…

— Rebecca Serle

“But , sitting here at my desk, I realize something else. We've been on these parallel tracks, David and I. Moving constantly…

— Rebecca Serle

“...epic, epic love is not about having someone. It's about being willing to give them up. It's sacrifice. It's my mom's theater…

— Rebecca Serle

“If I could go back to that night in May, I'd do things very differently. I'd never end up on that rooftop…

— Rebecca Serle

It takes a lot for a show to withstand the test of time.

— Rebecca Serle

For many writers, selling a book is the ultimate dream.

— Rebecca Serle

When I write novels, it's just me alone in a room.

— Rebecca Serle

Defining success is an ongoing challenge.

— Rebecca Serle

“How do you mourn something that never really belonged to you?”

— Rebecca Serle

I always say being a writer is the best gig around. I love it.

— Rebecca Serle

Of course YA authors have a responsibility to their audience.

— Rebecca Serle

At 22, and on my fourth day in New York, I was lucky enough to meet my mentor.

— Rebecca Serle