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… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
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… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage. — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
I was no hero. The dearest wishes of my heart were for safety and tranquility. The world was a perilous place, wrong for the… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
But what I really long to know you do not tell either: what you feel, although I've given you hints by the score of… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
No music. No rituals. At home I write in my office or on the laptop in the kitchen where our puppy likes to sleep,… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
I think kids abandon stories all the time. They start stories and get frustrated or get a different, better idea. I think that it… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
Oak, granite, Lilies by the road, Remember me? I remember you. Clouds brushing Clover hills, Remember me? Sister, child, Grown tall, Remember me? I… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
You see, writing down your meanderings gets something started deep in the recesses of your brain. That distant part of your mind knows that… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
I wonder how Admat can be everywhere. Is he in my sandal? Or is he my sandal itself? Why would a god bother to… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed. — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
