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Maggie Stiefvater Quotes
American
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Author
November 18, 1981
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
Culture
Black
Dark
Absolute
Defined
Gray
Novels
Readers
Satisfying
Shades
Young Adult
Adult
Choices
I Think
Incredibly
Think
White
Young
Teenagers want to be able to fight for what's right - but finding out what's right is now 90 percent of the battle.
Maggie Stiefvater
Fight
Battle
Want
Right
Teenagers
Able
Finding
Now
Out
Percent
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
Death
Culture
Where
Dystopian
Concern
Enamored
Escapism
Violent
Fiction
Lived
Major
Would
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
You
People
Money
Look
Outsider
Outsiders
Pocket
Teenagers
Become
Does
Easy
Even
Feel
Like
Makes
More
Other
Ourselves
Person
Popular
See
Shape
Very
Who
This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.
Maggie Stiefvater
Go
Hands
Book
Pleasure
Go Away
Object
Tactile
Away
Going
Hold
Just
Our
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
Myself
Teen
School
More
Entertaining
Figured
Outsider
College
Got
High
High School
Interested
Might
Saw
A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.
Maggie Stiefvater
Conversation
Missing
Writer
Novel
Author
Reader
Starter
Both
Lot
'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.
Maggie Stiefvater
Black
Club
Saddle
Books
Misty
Read
My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.
Maggie Stiefvater
Long
Money
Pet
Parents
Afforded
Earned
Let Us
Permissive
Rhinoceros
Structure
Animals
Any
Built
Buy
Came
Could
Going
Kind
Live
Them
Us
Very
Wanted
Were
Whatever
Would
I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.
Maggie Stiefvater
Love
Nature
Beautiful
Country
About
Also
Dangerous
Grew
One Of The Things
Really
Things
Up
Very
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
Family
Like
Big
Growing Up
Big Thing
Instrument
Musical Instrument
Von
Everybody
Growing
Had
Musical
Play
Thing
Up
Were
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
Death
Me
Time
Society
Modern Society
Mourning
Riot
Wore
Asked
Black
Child
Kids
Like
Mean
Modern
Said
Things
Who
Why
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I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.
Maggie Stiefvater
Good
Thinking
Speed
Limit
Luckily
Miles
Per
Speed Limit
Hour
Over
Same
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
Work
You
People
Mistake
Assuming
Biggest Mistake
Creativity
Feather
Foster
Gently
Muse
Pleasurable
Storytelling
Wings
Background
Biggest
Book
Carry
End
Hit
Make
Once
Plays
While
Will
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
You
Character
King
Queen
Compelled
Further
Meeting
Plot
Reader
Regard
Twists
Action
Feel
Feels
Going
How
I Can
Interesting
Like
Matter
Read
Real
Someone
Tell
Who
Writer
I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.
Maggie Stiefvater
Mind
Feel
Like
Ready
Busting
Come
I Feel
I Feel Like
Many
Out
Stories
I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.
Maggie Stiefvater
Think
Challenge
Book
Wrong
I Think
Story
Telling
Whenever
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
Me
Important
More
Book
Adaptation
Adore
Counts
Lenient
Most Important Thing
Readers
Done
Film
Important Thing
Many
Most
Original
Spirit
Than
The Most Important
Thing
Well
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
Book
Horror
Make
Soft
Filmmakers
Please
Oh
Take
Turn
I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.
Maggie Stiefvater
Love
Me
Focus
Emotions
Affect
Author
Edges
Elements
Filmmakers
Pluck
Reader
Subconscious
Viewer
Aware
How
I Love
Meant
Movie
Same
Things
As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.
Maggie Stiefvater
You
Yourself
Better
Sometimes
Better Person
Surround
Surround Yourself
Friends
Happens
Learn
Make
Old
Only
Person
Relationships
Who
It's easy to say why I love coming to Chicago for my signings, because I still remember the very first time I came to Chicago, right before 'Shiver' came out. I remember I was so struck by the feel of the city, how wide open it felt, even with these massive buildings all around me. The parks and green spaces are incredible.
Maggie Stiefvater
I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.
Maggie Stiefvater
Thinking
Remember
Person
Country
Chicago
Dirt
Could
I Remember
Kind
Live
Out
Road
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
Time
Wife
Movies
Cry
Awe
Ending
Shock
Traveler
Books
Ever
Imagine
Knew
Read
Second
Started
I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.
Maggie Stiefvater
Me
Music
Think
Mood
Brainstorm
Distracted
Scenes
Easily
Fit
Listening
Makes
Playing
Unless
Very
While
Would
In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
Maggie Stiefvater
You
End
Like
Afraid
Critics
In The End
Write
I am an introvert. I should get that out there now.
Maggie Stiefvater
I Am
Now
Introvert
Out
Am
Get
Should
Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.
Maggie Stiefvater
Life
Me
You
Time
Conscious
Conscious Decision
Picked
Shy
About
Afraid
Anything
Changed
Decision
Even
Forever
Made
Much
My Life
Once
Pretty
Room
See
Then
Too
Up
Very
I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
Maggie Stiefvater
Me
Music
Think
Writing
Tick
Could
Ever
Give
Makes
Up
Would
Would-Be
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
Love
People
True Love
True
Confession
Cry
Overwhelming
Because
Belief
Here
Inspired
Like
Make
Say
Some
Would
Write
Wrote
One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relationships between teens and their parents. I definitely think that teens are a product of their parents. You either end up just like them or you consciously make the decision to be unlike them.
Maggie Stiefvater
You
Decision
Think
Parents
Explore
Teens
Unlike
Young Adult
About
Adult
Between
Definitely
Either
End
Fiction
Just
Like
Make
One Of The Things
Product
Really
Relationships
Them
Things
Up
Young
When I graduated from college, I went straight to work for a federal contractor, a desk job, and they were great to me, they loved me, I was like their mascot, but I just couldn't stand working in an office. I just hated it. And so one day I went in and said, 'I'm sorry, this is my two-weeks notice, I'm quitting to become an artist.'
Maggie Stiefvater
Work
Me
Great
Day
Contractor
Desk
Graduated
Hated
Notice
Quitting
Sorry
Artist
Become
College
Federal
Job
Just
Like
Loved
Office
One Day
Said
Stand
Straight
Were
Working
When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
Maggie Stiefvater
Art
Music
Game
Teen
Juggling
Turns
Between
Choose
Difficult
I Can
Out
Them
Thought
Would
Writing
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
Love
People
Limits
Interesting
Absolute
Interesting People
Inventing
Involve
Menace
Paranormal
Pushing
Werewolves
I Love
Other
Some
Them
Then
Those
Ideas come from all over, but as I write more and more, I find I'm always hunting for mood: I want to write a novel with a pervasive mood that sticks with you after you close the cover.
Maggie Stiefvater
You
Mood
Always
Ideas
Cover
Hunting
More And More
Pervasive
Sticks
After
Close
Come
Find
I Write
More
Novel
Over
Want
Write
I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.
Maggie Stiefvater
Work
Mood
New
Movies
First Thing
New Idea
Pacing
Stuck
The First Thing
Theaters
Books
First
Get
Hit
Idea
Out
Picture
Thing
Work Out
Working
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