Caroline B. Cooney Quotes

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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• I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they’re going on to read another book. I’m thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun.

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• I’m one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me.

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• I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

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

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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.

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• My favorite book is always the one I’m working on at the moment.

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• People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person’s.

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Caroline B. Cooney (13)

Birth:	10th May, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist

About

Caroline B. Cooney was born in Greenwich, Connecticut. She is an American author of more than ninety suspense, mystery, and romance novels for teenagers, which have sold more than fifteen million copies and are published in several languages. Her international bestseller The Face on the Milk Carton has sold more than three million copies and was made into a television movie. Cooney’s books have received many state library awards and are on several booklists, such as the New York Public Library's "Teen Picks." She grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, and spent most of her life on the Connecticut shoreline, but recently moved to South Carolina to live near family.

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