William Sleator Quotes

#1. Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are.

James Young

#2. Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.

William Sleator

#3. No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.

J.C. Ryle

#4. I've always been interested in both writing and music. When I first started getting published, I also worked as rehearsal pianist for the Boston Ballet, touring with them all over the U.S.A. and Europe - I wasn't making enough money from writing to support myself.

William Sleator

#5. Yet Betty would learn among the black Muslims that any black person clever or lucky enough to reach adulthood must choose between slumber and strugle.

Russell J. Rickford

#6. A flood of emotions rushes into me. Pain and anger. Sadness and pity. But most surprising of all, hope.

Jay Asher

#7. squidgiest fraction

Liane Moriarty

#8. I can't write every day. I have to skip a day in between. If I try to do it every day, nothing comes.

William Sleator

#9. I learn more from books than from people

William Sleator

#10. Once you're in, you're in. It's like the Mafia. Once a Monkee, always a Monkee.

Davy Jones

#11. I think about my audience when I write, to some extent. Thinking of writing for young adults, I try to keep the stories moving, never a dull moment, to hold their interest.

William Sleator