Summer Friend: Interviewed by Cynthea Liu

Interviewed by Cynthea Liu

Cynthia Liu interviewed me for her site Writing for Children and Teens. This site is chock full of information, interviews, tips, and quips from Cynthea's sidekick, Snoop. Click here to read the interview.

7 comments:

Mary Witzl said...: For some reason, I can't manage to get this interview to pop up. Either I'm extra hopeless today or I'm just doing something extra wrong.

I'll try again tomorrow!; June 20, 2008 at 4:19 PM
Brenda said...: I love the simple quote: Writers write

I enjoyed reading your interview...

Congrats!; June 20, 2008 at 5:10 PM
Charles Gramlich said...: Very nice interview. Congrats. Your enthusiasm is catching.; June 20, 2008 at 9:50 PM
Cate Gardner said...: Congratulations.; June 21, 2008 at 3:00 AM
Mary Witzl said...: (Finally got that interview to pop up!)

I liked the "Writers write" comment too. It is funny how a saying that might seem obvious can elude you until one day it hits you with utter clarity. The simpler the saying, the truer this is. And yes -- your enthusiasm is catching!

Violet Raines sounds great. A kid who still wants to be a kid...; June 24, 2008 at 8:01 PM
Sheri Perl-Oshins said...: That was really great Danette. I can't wait to read your book.; June 26, 2008 at 8:53 PM
Stella said...: Congrats on the interview, Danette. I look forward to the publication of your book and hope to buy a copy for my library. You have arrived my dear!

About the "writers write" quote. Funny, I'd recently told somebody else the same thing.; June 28, 2008 at 9:41 PM

Thoughts on Writing

"If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster." --Isaac Asimov

"It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up, because by that time I was too famous." --Robert Benchley

"When writers meet, they are truculent, indifferent, or over-polite. Then comes the inevitable moment. A shows B that he has read something of B's. Will B show A? If not, then A hates B; if yes, then all is well." --Cyril Connolly

"Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to." --Carl Van Doren

"Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead." --Gene Fowler

"I always write a good first line, but I have trouble writing the others." --MoliFre

"What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window." --Burton Rascoe

"Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else." --Gloria Steinem

"I love being a writer; what I can't stand is the paperwork." --Peter De Vries

"This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again." --Oscar Wilde

"I will tell you a story." --Jesus (Matthew 21:28, CEV)