Alex Flinn Quotes

32 quotes in 436 categories

• True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no for an answer. He would search…
• I love you, I thought. But I didn't say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face. She was far…
• Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
• In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is 'as good as she is beautiful.' I wondered if people…
• Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that.
• Maybe we judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.
• It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.
• That's what true love should be like-the person should be part of your soul and you should know what they're feeling all the time.
• Anyone else feel like that? Like your life's a big act. Like you're trying to be a man when you're just a scared kid, trying…
• Good to know: Doctors can't cure you of being a beast.
• A beautiful thing is precious no matter the price
• People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don't even notice anymore...
• I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.
• I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.
• Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides is a useful…
• Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and…
• I was painfully shy, and I had tremendous difficulty making friends. So, lacking friends, I watched other people. Watching is something all writers must do,…
• I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but…
• Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from…
• Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.

Browse Alex Flinn Quotes by Category