Margaret Stohl Quotes
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The Lowcountry traditionally is a logical place where the big ships stopped and brought new things in from the ocean, and the islands have a mystical tradition. It is such a visual place, too, with these iconic villages with the Spanish moss and the village and historical homes and the coast.
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I'm always excited to see my good buddy Richelle Mead. She cracks me up. I never get to see Veronica Roth enough, either.
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Everything I write is about big feelings. What I care about is trying to be brave enough to feel how you feel and to be emotionally true.
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People ask why do I write strong women characters, and basically, all the girls I know are strong; the girls I've had are strong. The women in my life are strong.
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I worked as a writer, lead designer, and creative director in the game industry.
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If you look at 'Doctor Who,' it's a Time Lord in a blue box who travels around the universe. It's a silly concept, but it's one of the most brilliant, emotional experiences because it's sort of about what is humanity.
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I grew up sitting in my closet waiting to go Narnia.
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I first read Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' as a teen in school, like you did. I read the book alone, eating lunch at my locker, neatly scored oranges my mother divided into five lines with a circle at the top, so my fingers could dig more easily into the orange skin. To this day, the smell of oranges reminds me of 'Mockingbird.'
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When you're writing about superpowers, you're writing about power. When you're writing about immortals, you're writing about mortality.
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You need books to read and readers for books.
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It doesn't matter if it's aliens or emotional weapons or whatever - it's still a real story about big feelings that have to come out.
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I was very shy - I didn't speak to anyone outside of my family until the fourth grade.
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I always say, 'I'm cracked. My characters are cracked. And you, reader, you're cracked, too.'
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I was an obsessive fantasy reader from the time I could read at all.
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It's a fallacy that people think that today's teenagers are shallow or somehow less intelligent than in the past.
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I fictionship. I love fictional men.
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It's like how science fiction in the '50s was a way of talking about war without actually having to risk any political capital. The obvious metaphor is power and powerlessness, but I also think it's a way of experimenting with dangerous feelings in a safe arena and trying things out.