I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Because I'm the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight.” — 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“Cath wanted to work on her own story now. Not the one for class. "Carry on". "Carry on" was Cath's story. Thousands… — 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
“Did you get lost in the library?" "No." "I always get lost in the library," he said, "no matter how many times… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get… — 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
It never occurred to me when I was young that I could be an author. That would be like saying, "I want… — 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
“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
“I just...," Cath started again: "I realized that I'm not cut out for fiction-writing." Professor Piper blinked and pulled her head back.… — 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 Image
“Are you awake?” “Have you been watching me sleep?” “Yes, Bella. Are you awake?” “No.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Te informo de que mi respuesta a tus próximas doce afirmaciones va a ser: «¿Cómo dices?»” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
God, his chin. She wanted to make an honest woman of his chin. She wanted to lock it down. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
