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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

Topics: About Back Books Feels Felt Garden Go Her Like Lot Loved Mary Quite Secret She Them Times Understand Visits Young

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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

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

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I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.

~Ellen Potter

Topics: Along Characters Move Novels Plot

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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

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

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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

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

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I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.

~Ellen Potter

Topics: Books Children Fiction Fun Had Kids Literary Literary Fiction Long Long Time More Much Myself Resisted Saw Time Writer Writing

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I write about two hours a day, and I write in fits and spurts - 45 minutes here, a half-hour there - and when I get stuck, which happens often, I take the dogs for a walk. But during the time when I'm not actually writing, I'm thinking.

~Ellen Potter

Topics: About Actually Day Dogs Fits Get Happens Here Hours Minutes Often Stuck Take Thinking Time Two Walk Which Write Writing I Write

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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

Topics: Become Been Book Books Business Connect Created Felt Had Like Noisy Order Publishing Quiet Read Readers Silence Things Too Very

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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

Topics: Away Badly Becoming Billions Blog Calling Card Giving Had Nothing Other Transparent Tried Voice Voices Where While Writer Your I Tried

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If E.B. White were writing in 2013, would there be a 'Charlotte's Web' trailer and an @SomePig Twitter account? I doubt it. Yet, in a way, he'd be missing out because I'm beginning to think that some of this noise is worth making - and some of it is worth hearing, too.

~Ellen Potter

Topics: Account Because Beginning Charlotte Doubt He Hearing Making Missing Noise Out Some Think Too Trailer Twitter Way Web Were White Worth Would Writing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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