Secret Happiness Quotes by Stef Penney

Just because we think of wolves (or the wilderness, or another race) as wild and fierce, doesn't mean there isn't another side to them.

— Stef Penney

I definitely do feel a pull toward people and places that are far from my own life.

— Stef Penney

I don't think I could write about someone I didn't feel some sympathy for.

— Stef Penney

“He smiled to show he meant no offense, but Scott takes offense like it is going out of style, and bristled.”

— Stef Penney

Whenever I pick up a book I think, "Tell me something I don't know."

— Stef Penney

Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly…

— Stef Penney

...it just goes to show you can't leave anything behind. You bring it all with you, whether you want to or not.

— Stef Penney

I love research, and in fact it's liberating because you have to create your own world. No one can say "I've just got back…

— Stef Penney

I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me.

— Stef Penney

I don't use real people for inspiration.

— Stef Penney

If writers stuck to firsthand experience, novels would be pretty limited.

— Stef Penney

Gypsies are, to say the least, underrepresented in literature and film.

— Stef Penney

I despise this weakness in myself--this endless one-sided conversation that takes the place of action...

— Stef Penney

“He thought of the next Saturday. [...] He thought of the picnic by the dipping pool on the river, where oaks and willows dappled…

— Stef Penney

Clearly the secret of happiness...is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.

— Stef Penney