Ellen Hopkins
Ellen Hopkins
Ellen Louise Hopkinsis a novelist who has published several New York Times bestselling novels that are popular among the teenage and young adult audience...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth26 March 1955
CityLong Beach, CA
CountryUnited States of America
pain eye heart
Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.
book writing important
I write books for young adults because I truly connect with them on some very deep level. They are our hope, our future, and inspiring them to be the best they can be is very important to me.
fun stuff would-be
And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers poetry. It would be fun, and really wonderful to get their stuff out there.
believe hitting pages
Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, Crank, with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it was hard-hitting then.
running long secret
Some secrets can't be kept too long. No matter how hard you try to hide them, sooner or later they scurry out from your cupboards, cockroaches on the run.
wall heart perfect
The truth is, I've always been afraid of letting anyone get too close. I built a wall around me, a barricade to hide behind those few times someone wanted entry to my heart.
hurt fake cheerful
I hide hurt behind a fake smile. I wear it all the time. Everyone says how I always look so cheerful. Shows what they know I guess.
mean breathing risk
Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing.
watches looks down-and
back turned, you don't have to look at what you've left behind. And the first person who turned their back on you can't watch you break down and cry.
infatuation without-trust love-without-trust
Love without trust is nothing more than infatuation.
girl good-girl secret
Even good girls have secrets, ones even their best friends must guess.
needed whole knows
I needed to see, needed to know, needed a whole lot more.
choices life-is
Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones.
crazy demon window
You gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in.