How do you get 'feng shui' out of 'thoughtful'? Maggie Stiefvater More Quotes by Maggie Stiefvater More Quotes From Maggie Stiefvater There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader. Maggie Stiefvater good-book matter book If I only have ten minutes, Sam, this is what I want to say. You're not the best of us. You're more than that. You're better than all of us. If I only have ten minutes, I would tell you to go out there and live. I'd say...please take your guitar and sing your songs to as many people as you can. Please fold a thousand more of those damn birds of yours. Please kiss that girl a million times. Maggie Stiefvater kissing girl song The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps. Maggie Stiefvater growing-up musical play Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism. Maggie Stiefvater dystopian-fiction violent culture As teenagers, we all see ourselves as outsiders... and it's very easy to look at other people who are more popular, who have more pocket money, and it makes you feel even more like an outsider, and it does shape who you become as a person. Maggie Stiefvater teenager pockets people I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as 'done well.' For me, the most important thing is that the film maintains the spirit of the original book. Maggie Stiefvater important done book I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further. Maggie Stiefvater queens real kings I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry. Maggie Stiefvater cry wife book I love inventing interesting people and then pushing them to their absolute limits - and usually those absolute limits involve homicidal faeries, werewolves, or some other paranormal menace. Maggie Stiefvater pushing people interesting I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining. Maggie Stiefvater college home school I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry. Maggie Stiefvater belief writing people When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot. Maggie Stiefvater mean kids children The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while Foster the People plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work. Maggie Stiefvater creativity mistake book In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers. Maggie Stiefvater black-and-white dark thinking Mother and daughter like spoons in a drawer. Maggie Stiefvater spoons daughter mother I’m not looking for self-control. Maggie Stiefvater grace-brisbane self-control self Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft. Maggie Stiefvater filmmaker horror book Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy. Maggie Stiefvater horse crazy book I watched her and I watched the birds' shadows flit across her face, and I...wanted. I wanted more happy memories to hang up on the ceiling, so many happy memories with this girl that they would crowd the ceiling and flap out into the hall and burst out of the house. Maggie Stiefvater girl house memories My good mood felt like an endangered species. Maggie Stiefvater good-mood endangered-species felt
