Books Quotes by Maggie Stiefvater

“Write the book you wish you could find on the shelf but can't.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

...she made her home in between the pages of books.

— 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

Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Books are more real when you read them outside.

— Maggie Stiefvater

You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.

— Maggie Stiefvater

I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Then I picked my book back up again and stroked her hair and read to the soundtrack of her breaths.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“She jumped off my bed and shoved my stack of books over; thousands of words crashed onto the floor.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

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

In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are…

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

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

“Behind the counter, I slouched on my stool in the sun and sucked up the summer as If I could hold every…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Do you know how some people can do anything?” “What do you mean?” “I mean, you tell them to write a tune,…

— Maggie Stiefvater

I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Once upon a time, there was a girl named Grace Brisbane. There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was…

— Maggie Stiefvater

I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an…

— Maggie Stiefvater

As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and…

— Maggie Stiefvater

I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an…

— Maggie Stiefvater

There are three big things going for The Scorpio Races: first, it is set on a beautiful but wild island in the…

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

“I prayed for her to leave so I could breath again. I prayed for her to buy a book so I would…

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

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

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

This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.

— Maggie Stiefvater

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

“(A novel is) a paper where your thesis is that these people are real, and you have to prove it.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“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

“And everywhere, everywhere, there were books. Not the tidy stacks of an intellectual attempting to impress, but the slumping piles of a…

— Maggie Stiefvater

The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you…

— Maggie Stiefvater

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