Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

I really enjoy going to a library and spending the day doing research - to me that is the most pleasurable part of writing the science book.

I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.

I don't write as much now as I used to, but I write. The lines still come, maybe periodically, and I'll go through these little bursts of time where I write a lot of things then a long period of time where maybe I don't write anything. Or these lines will come into my head and I'll write 'em down in a little book, just little sets of lines, but I won't try to make stories or poems out of them. I'm doing a lot of that now, just the lines.

I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really amazing thing.

If you ever write a book, I can only give you one piece of advice. Don't let your parents get involved.

Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements.

But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.

When I'm writing a book, I draw from my immediate experience, and my books are therefore almost a snapshot of where I am at that moment in my life.

Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it.

Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.

When I'm blogging, I think book writing is easier and vice versa. Writing is lonely work, and the good thing about blogging is that you have immediate feedback from commenters.

I don't think we [with Kate DiCamillo] intended to write a book about friendship, I think we intended to write a book about two friends.

So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.

These are rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what's taking place in the story.

[Alex] Haley had a tendency to write even more frequently and voluminously to his agents and his editors than he did putting pen to paper in his own books.

I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me to the task.

Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard.

Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.

I discovered John Truby ten years ago when a friend told me about his screenwriting course. I studied Truby's principles for a year and -- using them -- I wrote the first draft of The Thieves of Ostia in two weeks. I go back to his teachings before each new book I write. Each time I study Truby, I learn something new.

There's that lovely thing for the first month or two of writing a new book: OK, I don't know what that character's going to do, but we'll find out later. After about three or four months you come to that bit where you've got to put some plot in before it's too late, and you have to go back and start inserting plot, and, ooh, I've left out the literature, OK, lets put some in.

The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can.

A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books.

My fear is you have to be careful as a writer to not get caught up in social media and blogging, because it can start to feed into your writing time. When you are writing a book, it's such a long journey where the payoff is way at the end, sometimes years away. The payoff of the blog post is today. You get the reinforcement, comments or "likes" immediately. It's appealing. You have to be patient with the book.

Somebody said, 'Hey, there is a lull in your career. Why don't you write books about your [dyslexia]?' We are currently writing our 34th novel.

I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.