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Monday Quotes: Authors We Loved Before They Got “Airplay”

July 7, 2014 by Diana Leave a Comment

Monday Quotes: Authors We Loved from the Start
I can remember the excitement back in high school and college when I would discover a new band I really liked, and no one else seemed to know about them. I would play the part of fan evangelist and try to convince my friends to listen to my discovery’s album. Then when my beloved band’s music would start playing on the radio, I felt like I was a small part of that song getting airplay. This still happens nowadays, usually with websites or apps or YouTube videos. I remember a few years ago when a salesman told my family about a cool, new website where we could watch TV shows or movies called Hulu and no one else except for Sandie knew what it was, and now everyone uses Hulu.

In that same way, it’s thrilling to discover new authors before they “get airplay.” Of course, there are those authors that are already established and everyone has heard of  them. We never would’ve read Melina Marchetta, Laurie Halse Anderson, John Green or Sarah Dessen, Libba Bray, and other authors if people hadn’t urged us to read their books. We love those authors, but there’s something special about reading a new (or first!) book by an author that’s not quite established. We feel in a small way, a part of their success. The authors we will quote from today, we were fortunate enough to have read before they became the popular, award-winning authors that they are today. So for our Monday Quotes today, we are celebrating these “early discovery” authors:

 Rainbow Rowell

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.  –Eleanor & Park

“I miss you.”
“That’s stupid,” she said. “I saw you this morning.”
“It’s not the time,” Levi said, and she could hear that he was smiling. “It’s the distance.” –Fangirl

John Corey Whaley

 “Life, he says, doesn’t have to be so bad all the time. We don’t have to be anxious about everything. We can just be. We can get up, anticipate that the day will probably have a few good moments and a few bad ones, and then just deal with it. Take it all in and deal as best we can.” –Where Things Come Back

Maybe we all just exist, all versions of us exist at times, and we have to figure out a way to get to each of them, to find each one and tell that version that it’s okay, that it’s all just the way it works, a concept too powerful to ignore but too complicated to explain” –Noggin

Ruta Sepetys

Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother’s was worth a pocket watch. –Between Shades of Gray

I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own. –Out of the Easy

Guadalupe Garcia McCall

 Sometimes it’s best to take things down and start all over again. It’s the way of the world. –Under the Mesquite

“You must remain pure of heart on this journey… Be courageous but remember to also be noble and everything will be all right.” –Summer of the Mariposas

 Veronica Roth

 “Becoming fearless isn’t the point. That’s impossible. It’s learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.” –Divergent

“Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.” –Insurgent

“I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me–they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.” –Allegiant

Kristin Cashore

 “When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?” –Graceling

“Great! He has indigestion, so let’s torture him with cake.” –Fire

“Bacon improved things dramatically.” -Bitterblue

 

 

 

 

 

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Filed Under: Features, Quotes, Top Features Tagged With: Guadalupe Garcia McCall, John Corey Whaley, Kristin Cashore, monday quotes, Rainbow Rowell, Ruta Sepetys, veronica roth

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