Words matter. These are the best Rainbow Rowell Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don’t talk about race amongst themselves!
In my mind, every single female character I’ve written is plus-size.
I feel like some sort of fiction-writing hobo, jumping trains and always hoping I’ll find a good place to start a fire in the next town. And I keep having these panicky episodes where I corner my husband and rant at him: ‘I don’t have anywhere to write! I can’t write! I don’t have a place to write!’
With ‘Attachments,’ my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.
I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I’m not much of a risk-taker.
When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they’re selling something that doesn’t exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn’t how people fall in love.
I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
My favorite Starbucks is nice – Omaha Starbucks stores tend to be friendlier than big-city ones, and the baristas are especially lovely at mine – but it’s still a Starbucks.
Our cellphones can do everything, but they’re bad at letting us talk to each other.
With fandom, people are sensitive, and sometimes defensive, about their experiences.
I’d never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
It’s very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.
A landline is an anchor – busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.
If you were an alien who came to our bookstores – or browsed our teen magazines – you’d think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.
I’m not complaining about my cell phone – all my friends are in there, and all my favorite songs and all my favorite Benedict Cumberbatch GIFs; I don’t want to give it up. But cell phones are the worst for talking on the phone.
When you’re a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh… I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It’s a daily reminder that women get to be funny.
When ‘Attachments’ came out and people liked it, I’d have a warm feeling of having made a connection.
In ‘Attachments,’ which is told from a male point of view, people asked me if a man would really think that much about whether a woman likes him. But I have a husband and three brothers, and they’re all like that.
