Catherine Ryan Hyde
Catherine Ryan Hyde
Catherine Ryan Hydeis an American novelist and short story writer, with more recent forays and notable success in transitioning from traditional publication towards the world of eBook publication. Her novels have enjoyed bestseller status in both the U.S. and U.K., and her short stories have won many awards and honors. Her book Pay It Forward was adapted into a movie and her novel Electric God is currently in development...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
Catherine Ryan Hyde quotes about
calling decided missed sometime
Sometime around 2006, I decided I had missed my true calling as a young adult author.
grownups kids tendency themselves work
Grownups have a tendency to talk themselves out of things, saying it will never work, but kids are fabulously optimistic.
handful since stories
I've always been ambidextrous, writing short stories and novels, and I pretty much have been writing a novel and a handful of short stories every year since '91.
january publishing since
I really only have been seriously writing, finishing things and publishing things since January '91.
amazon coming longer publishing titles
One of the nice things about publishing with Amazon is that the window for marketing is much longer than with a traditional publisher because these titles are not coming off of shelves.
business public reactive reader statements thinks
As authors, we all have to learn not to be reactive to public statements about our books. It's really not our business what each reader thinks of them.
basically call days inspirational known means pages people running themselves
I've been known to write 10 pages a day for 10 days running before I take a breath. I am not a disciplined writer. I'm one of those people who laughingly call themselves inspirational writers, which basically means someone who has no control over their own creative process.
acts people
The world I live in is not all white people, not all straight people, and it's not all people who have their acts together, either.
beings deeply dig experience human love loved sort surface underneath
When I write, my goal is to delve deeply enough into the human experience to find a sort of universality. Once you dig down underneath surface differences, we are all human beings. And all human beings want essentially the same things at our core. We want to love and be loved. We want to be safe. We want our loved ones to be safe.
fit humbly instead letting market process shape submit target true work
Those who write may think they know their target market. They may even feel they can shape the work to fit it. If this is true of you, you have more control over your creative process than I do. Even so, I humbly submit that you try letting your writing shape your target market instead and see what happens.
kindness way acts-of-kindness
There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.
world ingredients ordinary
Because it proves that you don't need much to change the entire world for the better. You can start with the most ordinary ingredients. You can start with the world you've got.
together back-together ifs
If it takes you apart, that's not love. Love puts you back together.
beautiful lonely waiting
... even though it was beautiful and comfortable, and even though it was the world, it was also a little bit boring. No, wait. Maybe boring isn’t the right word. What’s the word I’m wanting here? Lonely. That’s it. It was a little bit lonely.