Cecelia Ahern Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I just feel very often like a child in an absolutely weird world. I think that life is quite weird sometimes.”

“I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery.”

“I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write.”

“Discover your own style. Don't try to repeat what has already been written - have the courage to do your own thing and don't be afraid to do something different.”

“Don't force yourself to write. Some people can write a novel in a few months, whereas for others it can take over a year. I'm lucky to be one of the former - but, even so, if I'm not in the mood to write, I won't. I'll go off, do something else and come back to it when I'm ready.”

“Although when I start a novel I know how it will begin and end, I like to let the people within the story take me on a journey between those points without having a fixed plan.”

“I always like to entertain, first of all, and if the readers take anything away from it that helps them with their own lives, well then, that is a bonus.”

“I always take a story that's kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that people imagine, that they are familiar with, and try to turn it into a story.”

“It's not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my characters to have hope - and that's what I do with all my stories.”

“We have a tendency to put ourselves last, we concentrate on everything else; work, friends, family, home issues, but we ignore the deeper stuff until it becomes so compressed that it can explode.”