“Write the book you wish you could find on the shelf but can't.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Ideas come from all over, but as I write more and more, I find I'm always hunting for mood: I want to… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“I prayed for her to leave so I could breath again. I prayed for her to buy a book so I would… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I like to hear from my readers, and I like to feel like I'm part of a bigger community of readers and… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“She jumped off my bed and shoved my stack of books over; thousands of words crashed onto the floor.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, there was a girl named Grace Brisbane. There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
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… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Behind the counter, I slouched on my stool in the sun and sucked up the summer as If I could hold every… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Do you know how some people can do anything?” “What do you mean?” “I mean, you tell them to write a tune,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
There are three big things going for The Scorpio Races: first, it is set on a beautiful but wild island in the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Then I picked my book back up again and stroked her hair and read to the soundtrack of her breaths. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I couldn't imagine anyone ever reading a book enough to make it look like that. It looked like it had been driven… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“(A novel is) a paper where your thesis is that these people are real, and you have to prove it.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I've always loved reading fantasy. I used to pick out all the books in the library that had the little unicorn sticker… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“She wasn't talking, though; she hung back, her eyes on the books all around her. I saw her face then, and I… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“And everywhere, everywhere, there were books. Not the tidy stacks of an intellectual attempting to impress, but the slumping piles of a… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Sam reached his hand toward mine and I automatically put my fingers in his. With a guilty little smile he pulled my hand toward… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
“Once upon a time, there lived a boy, and he had to risk everything to keep what he loved. But really the story was:… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
I think-I need to ask an embarrassing question. Do you think I could borrow a pair of scrubs? I-uh-my pants-" "Oh!" Cried the poor… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
We dance, we dance. You hold the thread of my soul. You spin, you spin. And you unravel the part from the whole. We… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
“At least when he was at Aglionby he could turn over his papers to see the grades, concrete proof of his success at something.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
“That's the one." In Puck Connolly's custody. That might be the last I see of that jacket.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
“I asked,”Are you going to pick up next time I call you?” ”I did this time didn’t I?” “Say yes.” “Yes. Conditionally yes.”…... …”What… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
Tell me what it's like. The race." "What it's like is a battle. A mess of horses and men and blood. The fastest and… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
“I felt a tickle on my skin; it took me a moment to realize that Cole was driving his die-cast Mustang up my arm.… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share
