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She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girls’ hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that hand do whatever it wanted to.
— Cynthia Voigt When She Hollers
Tags: writing, teen, rape, pen, incest, girl, freedom, angst

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My favorite season was when I wrote every morning for three or four hours, then I would go and teach my classes at school, come home to my family and hang out with them, have dinner, and then, after everyone was tucked in, I would prepare for my classes the next day.
— Cynthia Voigt
Tags: day, home, family, morning
I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.
— Cynthia Voigt
Tags: trouble, who, person, ideas
I was no scholar in college, and was arrogant about what I thought.
— Cynthia Voigt
Tags: arrogant, about, thought, college
I think writing is a part-time career, because otherwise you get a little stale, maybe even self-indulgent, when you have to fill the hours with sentences. I don't think, if I wrote 12 hours a day, my work would be much better.
— Cynthia Voigt
Tags: think, day, you, work
I'm a big fan of outlining. Here's the theory: If I outline, then I can see the mistakes I'm liable to make. They come out more clearly in the outline than they do in the pages.
— Cynthia Voigt
Tags: big, i-can, more, mistakes
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