Shannon Hale Quotes

• As long as there are movement and harmony, there are words.

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• As a general rule, writing is very inconvenient.

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• Listen to your second thought, or the third might be too late.

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• Breakfast should always come before sleuthing.

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• A woman without hobbies is dangerously self-negligent.

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• Sometimes it seems my identity’s a matter of opinion.

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• Even stories need a chance to sleep.

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• Sometimes one does not mean to fall in love. Sometimes it just happens.

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• A heart is a heart in a child or a man.

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• Time is a wind that keeps blowing in my face and mumbling words that don’t make sense.

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• Smell is the voice of the soul.

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• Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue though it may take some time before they can taste it.

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• It’s not something you tell your single best friend. It’d be like rubbing your nose in the poop of my happiness.

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• Truth is when your mind and your gut agree.

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• Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.

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• I do like the world quite a lot.

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• You’re better than seven years of food. You’re better than windows. You’re even better than the sky.

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• If we don’t tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won’t believe it.

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• I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.

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• Fantasy is not practice for what is real fantasy is the opiate of women.

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Shannon Hale (30)

Birth:	26th January, 1974
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Novelist

About

Shannon Hale is an American author of young adult fantasy and adult fiction, including the Newbery Honor book Princess Academy, the Books of Bayern series, two adult novels, and two graphic novels that she co-wrote with her husband co-wrote.

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