Rainbow Rowell: "Everything true was too hard to write—he was..."

About Rainbow Rowell

Rainbow Rowell (born February 24, 1973) is an American author known for young adult and adult contemporary novels. Her young adult novels Eleanor & Park (2012), Fangirl (2013), and Carry On (2015) have been subjects of critical acclaim.

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I don't trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they're going to get tired of me and take off.

—Rainbow Rowell in Fangirl

fear relationship trust

If she showed him how much she needed him, he'd run away.

—Rainbow Rowell in Eleanor & Park

love relationships need

Nobody's lives just fit together. Fitting together is something you work at. It's something you make happen—because you love each other.

—Rainbow Rowell in Landline

love work

I think I can live without you, but it won't be any kind of life.

—Rainbow Rowell in Landline

love living relationship desire want

Wasn't that the point of life? To find someone to share it with? And if you got that part right, how far wrong could you go? If you were standing next to the person you loved more than everything else, wasn't everything else just scenery?

—Rainbow Rowell in Landline

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He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

—Benjamin Disraeli

writing the world

Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep. It's always in the middle of the bloody night, or when you're half awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is.

—John Lennon

writing music letting go sleep night

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

—Peter Ustinov

words writing criticism language

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

—Samuel Johnson

reading writing language composition

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

—Henry James

writing novels interest

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8 May 2016 Added
26 Oct 2026 Wording changed

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Everything true was too hard to write–he was too much to lose. Everything she felt for him was too hot to touch.

Everything true was too hard to write—he was too much to lose. Everything she felt for him was too hot to touch.

About Rainbow Rowell

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