Caroline B. Cooney

But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#young-adult #young-adult-fiction #young-adult-horror #young-adult-fiction

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

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I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

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I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

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I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

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I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#i #i love #kids #know #love

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

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I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

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I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

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If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

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