Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you.

- Caroline B. Cooney

But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.

- Caroline B. Cooney

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 st…

- Caroline B. Cooney

People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.

- Caroline B. Cooney

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 pe…

- Caroline B. Cooney

What more can life hold, than to know that because of your story, somebody out there has decided to read again!

- Caroline B. Cooney

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

- Caroline B. Cooney

When in doubt, shut up.

- Caroline B. Cooney

in Los Angeles ... was the thinking-est crowd on earth: how to get ahead, how to mold a better body, how to have a better relationship, how to score,…

- Caroline B. Cooney