Rebellion is necessary for development of character.

- Cynthia Voigt

The worst things weren't outside of you.

- Cynthia Voigt

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

- Cynthia Voigt

People can be unimaginably foolish...and they can be unimaginably grand, at times.

- Cynthia Voigt

If I'm writing by intuition, generally that calculation works itself out. But if I'm writing a mystery, and somebody has to have a reason for doing w…

- Cynthia Voigt

Even the bad books I write are satisfying. I'm my least critical reader.

- Cynthia Voigt

I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she s…

- Cynthia Voigt

...a really good friend, the kind of friend who - when they were together both of them were more able to be who they really were.

- Cynthia Voigt

I got to thinking—when it was too late—you have to reach out to people. To your family, too. You can't just let them sit there, you should put your h…

- Cynthia Voigt