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Wendelin Van Draanen Quotes
American
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Author
January 6, 1965
There are certain things I believe we need to keep in our emotional arsenal as we navigate through life. Hope is a big one. The more of that we can carry, the better.
Wendelin Van Draanen
Life
Hope
Believe
Better
Arsenal
Big One
Certain Things
Navigate
Big
Carry
Certain
Emotional
I Believe
Keep
More
Need
Our
Things
Through
My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.
Wendelin Van Draanen
Hope
Mission
Anything
Belief
Promote
Carry
Give
Minds
Readers
Set
Them
Writer
Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
Wendelin Van Draanen
People
End
More
Loved
Discovering
Motivation
Mysteries
Creative
Even
Fun
Growing
Growing Up
Now
Part
Things
Up
Write
Writing
Young
Young People
What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.
Wendelin Van Draanen
Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.
Wendelin Van Draanen
Hard Work
Work
You
People
Appears
Concentration
Contemplation
External
Mystical
Sweat
Benefit
Down
Force
Hard
Lot
Often
Reality
Sit
Some
Somehow
Takes
Tend
Write
Writer
Writing
Your
I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.
Wendelin Van Draanen
Morning
People
Crazy
Think
Distractions
Machine
Simpler
PC
Computer
Early
Even
I Write
Just
Less
Still
Though
Use
Write
I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health.
Wendelin Van Draanen
Life
Health
More
Exercise
Mental Health
Mental
Run
Than
Whole
I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say.
Wendelin Van Draanen
Believe
Entertainment
Something
Say
Paramount
I Believe
I Believe In
Importance
You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
Wendelin Van Draanen
You
Allergic
Kids
Messages
Don't even try to talk to me when I'm watching the moon. That's my moon, baby.
Wendelin Van Draanen
Moon
Me
Space
Try
Baby
Even
Talk
Watching
If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes and ears open. Pay attention to the different ways people speak. Read lots of different kinds of books. And then try writing in different voices and styles - don't be afraid to experiment.
Wendelin Van Draanen
I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rewriting some more! It's a good thing I learned at an early age to keep on trying. Stick to it, and eventually you'll get there.
Wendelin Van Draanen
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