Adventure Quote by 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 life.”

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

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

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“Hocus Pocus let's try to focus”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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All great adventures have moments that are really crap.

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