Quote by 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 a mess!…

— 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 notice them?"…

— 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 even look…

— Ellen Potter

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

— Ellen Potter

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

— 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

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

— Ellen Potter

All great adventures have moments that are really crap.

— Ellen Potter

“Careful, she bites.”

— Ellen Potter