Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes

I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.

The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.

When things are going good, I get nervous.

Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.

When I say "I fear" - don't let it disturb you, dearest heart. We all fear when we are in waiting-rooms. Yet we must pass beyond them, and if the other can keep calm, it is all the help we can give each other.

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.

I'm not a fearful person, but I'm a pretty pessimistic person. So some of my best times are waiting, anticipating. That's the way it always has been with me, whether anticipating a ball game, anticipating a relationship.

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

Sometimes you feel like it's cursed when something takes so long to come out and you don't know if it's going to really come out.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.

We promise according to our hopes; we fulfill according to our fears.

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

After those first two BAFTAs, I didn't really get offered anything, which makes you think, 'Oh, no!' And, after I finished the second series of 'Broadchurch,' nothing came up for six months, which really is a long time, and I got a bit panicky.

For a very long time, I thought everyone I met through the process of getting an agent and a publishing deal had made a mistake. When they agreed to pay me for the book, I thought they would ask me for the money back.

I worried so long that I would sing to empty bars my whole life. I was singing my guts out; there would be five people into it.

If your worst fear can come true, and everything can still be OK, then there's really not much to fear at all.