Catherine Ryan Hyde
Catherine Ryan Hyde
Catherine Ryan Hydeis an American novelist and short story writer, with more recent forays and notable success in transitioning from traditional publication towards the world of eBook publication. Her novels have enjoyed bestseller status in both the U.S. and U.K., and her short stories have won many awards and honors. Her book Pay It Forward was adapted into a movie and her novel Electric God is currently in development...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
calling decided missed sometime
Sometime around 2006, I decided I had missed my true calling as a young adult author.
acts people
The world I live in is not all white people, not all straight people, and it's not all people who have their acts together, either.
basically call days inspirational known means pages people running themselves
I've been known to write 10 pages a day for 10 days running before I take a breath. I am not a disciplined writer. I'm one of those people who laughingly call themselves inspirational writers, which basically means someone who has no control over their own creative process.
business public reactive reader statements thinks
As authors, we all have to learn not to be reactive to public statements about our books. It's really not our business what each reader thinks of them.
handful since stories
I've always been ambidextrous, writing short stories and novels, and I pretty much have been writing a novel and a handful of short stories every year since '91.
amazon coming longer publishing titles
One of the nice things about publishing with Amazon is that the window for marketing is much longer than with a traditional publisher because these titles are not coming off of shelves.
hurt stupid kids
I try to think of a way to get there without going past it. There are lots of ways, but they all have me walking a little farther. And that's stupid, I decide. What am I, a little kid? I can stand to see something it hurts to want. I can see it and then just keep walking. It happens to lots of people everyday. We all survive.
real air heaven
The closer you get to heaven, the less air there is, because when you get to heaven for real, you don't need to breathe anymore.
beautiful world scar
Nobody said it was a beautiful world with no scars.
sex men trying
If you want to see a man come to his senses, try something like, Do you happen to carry a rubber in your wallet? Did I mention I'm not on the pill?
kissing thinking revolution
A kiss, she thinks, has to be entirely balanced -- it has to have a little conflict, a little dialectic, a little revolution.
real filling-up talking
I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not always be filling up the air with words
easy hard
Things are so easy to do, so hard to undo.
stones today ends
I keep telling you the future isn't set in stone. It's not all decided yet. The future is just what's down the road we decided to walk on today. You can change roads anytime. And that changes where you end up.