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Jump or stay in the boat.
I fictionship. I love fictional men.
In the end, the Wheel crushes us all.
He saved the world, but he shattered mine.
You need books to read and readers for books.
Feelings are memories. Memories are also feelings.
Darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope.
I grew up sitting in my closet waiting to go Narnia.
I'm up at dawn. I practically fall asleep at dinner.
Sports section and a sticky bun. Know what that means.
Han Solo would never wear the earring Harrison Ford wears.
These things are difficulties, not impossibilities. -- Macon
Harper Lee was my David Bowie, and I feel her loss in my bones.
I like to make an outline or cards and then utterly ignore them.
Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.
I was an obsessive fantasy reader from the time I could read at all.
I am powerful because of who and what I am. Not because of who I am not.
I worked in videogames for 16 years before writing my first book in 2009.
I worked as a writer, lead designer, and creative director in the game industry.
All that destiny garbage. Nobody can decide what happens to you. Nobody but you.
I was very shy - I didn't speak to anyone outside of my family until the fourth grade.
For me a book has always been a chance to reach out and connect to someone and not be alone.
I always say, 'I'm cracked. My characters are cracked. And you, reader, you're cracked, too.'
I was the person who stayed awake reading by the nightlight until the scary shadows made me crazy.
It's not easy to be Light when you've been Dark. It's almost too much to ask anyone. -Macon Ravenwood
We love what we love, and shared fandoms bring people of all ages and backgrounds into one great tribe.
I haven't left a mark on the world, but is that so bad? Considering how deeply the world has marked me?
There are more reasons for people's actions than the number of actions that are actually set in motion.
There's a lot of loneliness in a book tour. A lot of grilled cheese sandwiches alone in your hotel at night.
The things that are the most valuable are often the ones you don't even know exist. -- Xavier, The Gatekeeper
It's a fallacy that people think that today's teenagers are shallow or somehow less intelligent than in the past.
I'm always excited to see my good buddy Richelle Mead. She cracks me up. I never get to see Veronica Roth enough, either.
Alden Ehrenreich is a drama nerd, and Alice Englert is indie girl. They're so cool in the way that our characters are cool.
At heart, I would have to say I'm a pantser. I fully embrace the chaos of letting the unintended happen, on life and on the page.
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.
I guess this was what it felt like to love someone and feel like you had lost them. Even when you were still holding them in your arms.
When you're writing about superpowers, you're writing about power. When you're writing about immortals, you're writing about mortality.
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.
I was raised in a community of Christian orthodoxy that had traveled with my parents to Los Angeles when they moved there for my father's job.
I think, to give our bookshelf a little credit, our area of the library and the bookstore has attracted stronger writers as it's started to thrive.
I understand that fictional men aren't real. Not 'really real'. I know this the same way I wonder if my readers are disappointed when they meet me.
When I first met you, that's what I remember. I looked up at the sky and thought, I'm going to love this person because even the sky looks different.
She yanked my plate away and took it to the sink. She rinsed some bones that looked like pork shoulder, which was weird since we'd had chicken tonight.
Sometimes people who sell books are seen as corporate salesmen, and people who sell reading are seen as literacy advocates, but you can't really separate the two.
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.
We wanted to celebrate the 'Dangerous Deception' release by letting everyone experience the thrill of sharing a book with a reader who wouldn't otherwise have one.
My solo novel 'Icons' was optioned by Alcon Entertainment, the folks who made the 'Beautiful Creatures' movie, and that's gotten as far as a script, but no news yet.
Anyone who says that writing for children or teens is easier than writing for adults has never tried it, because they are so much more critical than adults. You cannot get anything past them.
Ant Prune was holding one of the squirrels in her hand. ‘And once a day, we have ta clean their little private parts with a Q-tip, so they'll learn ta clean themselves.' That was a visual I didn't need
So you are a vampire." "I most certainly am not." He looked annoyed. "That's such a common phrase, such a cliche, and so unflattering. I suppose you believe in werewolves and aliens too. I blame television.