6 Ellen Potter Quotes for You to Enjoy

Ellen Potter

American Author

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A lot of times, when I go back to books I loved when I was young, I don't quite understand what it was that I loved about them. Rereading 'The Secret Garden,' I felt a lot like Mary feels when she visits her garden. Ellen Potter

I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite a mess! The experience of reading the novel keeps deepening for me. Ellen Potter

Me Garden Experience Reading Year Every Secret Bookshelf Battered Adult Mess Quite Really Novel Deepening Keeps Copy

I pretty much always knew I wanted to be a writer. I was writing goofy stories when I was 7 or 8. That was what I call 'wishful-thinking writing.' I grew up in the city and always wanted a horse, but there was no way I was getting a horse. So I wrote all these stories about kids who had horses. It's still fun entering these other worlds. Ellen Potter

Writing Other Worlds Way Kids Entering City Pretty About Horse Horses Writer Had Knew Goofy Wrote Call Always Still Up Getting Wanted Grew Stories Much Who Fun

One professor in college told me flat out I wasn't good enough to enter the creative writing program. I saved that letter and promised myself I would send it back to her when my first book came out. Ellen Potter

Myself Good Me Creative Book Writing College First Saved Enough Back Enter Out Promised Would Came Send Flat Flat Out Creative Writing Letter Professor Her Program

Books are such quiet things - created in silence, read in silence - yet publishing a book has become a very noisy business. I've been noisy, too. I felt like I had to be in order to connect with my readers. Ellen Potter

I had a blog where I tried to be transparent while giving away nothing. I tweeted and Facebooked badly. As a writer, your 'voice' is your calling card, yet my voice was becoming indistinguishable from billions of other voices. Ellen Potter

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