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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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CAROLINE B. COONEY My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment.
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SIMONE ELKELES I didn't care where my works were published.
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JOHN GREEN The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: t...
BIBLE I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
KATE MORTON When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof.
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JANE LINDSKOLD We always ask them why. They were essentially fishing for something that was not in the published ph...
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(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

Someone I loved on...
MARY OLIVER I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels.
NICHOLAS SPARKS In the two novels I have published, it was my fortune at different times, and from different persons...
WILLIAM GODWIN I wrote a huge number of letters that spring: one a week to Naoko, several to Reiko, and several mor...
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CAROLINE SHAW How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.
CAROLINE STEVERMER Oh Beck, I love reading your e-mail. Learning your life. And I am careful; I always mark new message...
CAROLINE KEPNES I have a very close relationship with my parents.
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI I truly believe that it's all of the hard times that make you step up to the next level, and tha...
CAROLINE BUCHANAN As a kid, I always wanted to be Carol Burnett or Johnny Carson. I love to chat and entertain.
CAROLINE RHEA I love The Cheesecake Factory, especially the chicken marsala. I almost always pick that dish; it ta...
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount o...
CAROLINE KNAPP I love real books, paper books, but I also love buying online, and I think that people are more will...
CAROLINE LEAVITT The problem with books is that they end.
CAROLINE KEPNES Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just n...
CAROLINE KNAPP Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intrica...
CAROLINE KNAPP Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my...
CAROLINE KNAPP I've done a lot of performance practice, Baroque playing, and some of the joy and the challenge ...
CAROLINE SHAW I think it's important to always keep professional and surround yourself with good people, work ...
CAROLINE WINBERG I loved every minute of my three years majoring in classics at Berkeley.
CAROLINE LAWRENCE I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got t...
CAROLINE KENNEDY The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judici...
CAROLINE KENNEDY What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.
CAROLINE MYSS Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you...
CAROLINE KNAPP Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitul...
CAROLINE KNAPP I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.
CAROLINE LAWRENCE By the time I was 5, I was already an outcast. It was the early 1960s, and I was part of the only Je...
CAROLINE LEAVITT I try to lead a pretty active lifestyle. My biggest hobby is traveling with my family. I love to tra...
CAROLINE SUNSHINE Everybody knows, nobody's talking - from LIE --debut novel coming September 1st from St. Martin's Pr...
CAROLINE BOCK Of course, the problem with self-transformation is that after a while, you don't know which version ...
CAROLINE KNAPP I really didn't even have time to get that many lessons, to be honest, because I was suddenly on...
CAROLINE CORR We do not judge great art. It judges us.
CAROLINE GORDON I would love to work with Johnny Depp. I really admire him as an actor, and personally, in my opinio...
CAROLINE SUNSHINE It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that...
CAROLINE DHAVERNAS I like ungroomed men. The relaxed look. I don't like fussy guys. Just shower and use deodorant.
CAROLINE WINBERG