Emma Shortt > Emma's Quotes

“I write for the same reason I eat chocolate - because it is, undeniably a compulsion.”
― Emma Shortt, 'Twas a Dark and Delicious Christmas

“Writing is like baking cupcakes, you're trying to make something from the raw. Like with cupcakes it's flour and eggs and stuff, and with books it's ideas and words. The end result is the same though, you want people to eat them up.”
― Emma Shortt

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
"After all this time?"
"Always," said Snape.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows