Ellen Potter

I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite…

— Ellen Potter

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.

— Ellen Potter

“Hocus Pocus let's try to focus”

— Ellen Potter

“Then she probably would have waved back," Max said. "And it might be a he." "Ha! Not likely," Lucia said. "Didn't you…

— Ellen Potter

“Rubbish," Max said. "Anyone can put on clumpy boots and pierce themselves silly. A truly dangerous person would be someone you'd never…

— Ellen Potter

I pretty much always knew I wanted to be a writer. I was writing goofy stories when I was 7 or 8.…

— Ellen Potter

Books are such quiet things - created in silence, read in silence - yet publishing a book has become a very noisy…

— Ellen Potter

“It was the right and responsible thing to do, so they put it off until later.”

— Ellen Potter

Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.

— Ellen Potter

“Then Lucia said, "So what do we do now?" "Nothing," Otto said. "Things will go on as just they always have.”

— Ellen Potter

I write about two hours a day, and I write in fits and spurts - 45 minutes here, a half-hour there -…

— Ellen Potter

All great adventures have moments that are really crap.

— Ellen Potter

“Careful, she bites.”

— Ellen Potter

Give that man a Pixy Stix," Haddie said. "A what?" Lucia asked. "Hold on." She left then returned a moment later with…

— Ellen Potter

I had a blog where I tried to be transparent while giving away nothing. I tweeted and Facebooked badly. As a writer,…

— Ellen Potter

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much…

— Ellen Potter

Jeremy used to hate it when she was younger because someone in her class told her redheads were freaks of nature.But our…

— Ellen Potter

“...when you start to feel like you are better than someone else, you should probably stick your head in a toilet because…

— Ellen Potter

“Mind your fingers though. She bites.”

— Ellen Potter

One professor in college told me flat out I wasn't good enough to enter the creative writing program. I saved that letter…

— Ellen Potter

A lot of times, when I go back to books I loved when I was young, I don't quite understand what it…

— Ellen Potter

Look, when do the really interesting things happen? Not when you've brushed your teeth and put on your pyjamas and are cozy…

— Ellen Potter

They [the Hardscrabbles]never enjoyed it when adults playfully lied to them. The adults always think they're being amusing and imaginative, just like…

— Ellen Potter

It's alarming how quickly people adjust to adventures when they are in one. You really have to work at being astonished by…

— Ellen Potter

If E.B. White were writing in 2013, would there be a 'Charlotte's Web' trailer and an @SomePig Twitter account? I doubt it.…

— Ellen Potter