Anna Quinn > Anna's Quotes

“Writers, I don’t know if there is anything more unexpectedly enlightening than allowing your imagination to run wild in your first draft.”
― Anna Quinn

“She closes her eyes and breathes in rhythm with the ebb and flow of the ocean. Her grandfather told her once, as they sat on the shore of Galway Bay, that on the ebb, the waves gathered up secrets and carried them away, and on the flow, the secrets spilled into new places until they were heard. She'd asked him if he'd heard any secrets, but he'd only put his finger on her lips and said, "Listen.”
― Anna Quinn, The Night Child

“Everyone has their own way of being brave.”
― Anna Quinn, The Night Child

“Writing is about you, the writer—your heart, your body, your mind. It's about how you carry grief and joy and pain and fear and hesitations and love. In a world that so often feels unsteady and unkind, writing is a way of holding on—a lantern you carry, a small, stubborn act of hope that says: I was here and this is what I saw, this is what I heard, this is what I touched, this is what I felt.”
― Anna Quinn