Crank Ellen Hopkins Quotes

#1. Creativity is not any accumulated knowledge, coming from past to the present. The stage of creation is a spontaneous flash of intelligence, Energy merging with mind, to create a new beginning. Creativity and meditation are similar, as both are expressions of something beyond mind.

Gian Kumar

#2. ENOUGH, pro. All there is in the world if you like it.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. Life was radical right after I met the monster.
Later, life became harder, complicated.
Ultimately, a living hell, like swimming against a riptide,
Walking the wrong direction in the fast lane of the freeway,
Waking from sweetest dreams to find yourself in the middle of a nightmare.

Ellen Hopkins

#4. Was the
fun in the fall?

Ellen Hopkins

#5. Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts.

Christopher Hitchens

#6. Because of baseball I smelled the rose of life. I wanted to travel, and to have nice clothes. Baseball allowed me to do all those things, and most important, during my time with the Crawfords, it allowed me to become a member of the brotherhood of friendship which will last forever.

Cool Papa Bell

#7. Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.

Ellen Hopkins

#8. I mean, who wants to trudge through life, doing
everything just right? Taking no chances means
wasting your dreams.

Ellen Hopkins

#9. What irritates me most about him is his natural goodness, his inborn selflessness.

Veronica Roth

#10. Know what Freud wrote in his diary when he was 77? "What do women want? My God, what do they want?" Fifty years this giant brain spends analyzing women. And he still can't find out what they want. So this makes him the world's greatest expert on female psychology?

Clare Boothe Luce

#11. Girls get Screwed. Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things. The way things work, how guys feel great, but make girls feel cheap for doing exactly what they beg for

Ellen Hopkins

#12. We used to do coke, till "Just Say No" put the stuff out of reach. Now it's crank. Meth. The monster. It's a bitch on the body, but damn do you fly.

Ellen Hopkins

#13. Art needs no victory because it is already the victory of the meticulous mind!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. I couldn't have known 'Crank' was going to be published, let alone become a big hit. That book was very personal for me: I had to tell the story for myself.

Ellen Hopkins

#15. As I thought
about that, I had
to wonder: What will we
know better about tomorrow?
Who cares? Hindsight is useless.

Ellen Hopkins

#16. I am sure I have heard this several times from places I can't recall, but it's not already in the Gaia Quotes database, so I add this profound insight from the fields of psychological healing and spiritual evolution. It sure has helped me.

Robert Frost

#17. I wanted to meet the monster.
Why go down if you can go up?

Ellen Hopkins

#18. Steve Zaillian is just the sweetest. A very, very wonderful and interesting director.

Peter Jacobson

#19. Life was good before I met the monster. After, life was great At least for a little while

Ellen Hopkins