Words matter. These are the best Margaret Stohl Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Getting books out into the world helps us all.
I’m up at dawn. I practically fall asleep at dinner.
I worked in videogames for 16 years before writing my first book in 2009.
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.
You need books to read and readers for books.
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.
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.
I was the person who stayed awake reading by the nightlight until the scary shadows made me crazy.
Alden Ehrenreich is a drama nerd, and Alice Englert is indie girl. They’re so cool in the way that our characters are cool.
Harper Lee was my David Bowie, and I feel her loss in my bones.
Writing is the easy part. The ‘getting it right’ part is harder.
When you’re writing about superpowers, you’re writing about power. When you’re writing about immortals, you’re writing about mortality.
It’s a fallacy that people think that today’s teenagers are shallow or somehow less intelligent than in the past.
The privilege, and the challenges, of taking on Black Widow have never been lost on me. I worked on the first ‘Spiderman’ game as well as ‘Fantastic Four,’ and I had always wanted to be able to tell more of a character-driven comic book story than was possible to fit into a game narrative.
Han Solo would never wear the earring Harrison Ford wears.
Sam and Dean Winchester sitting on the top of the Impala sharing their feelings over a beer is a reward worth driving any ‘Supernatural’ demon away – but in real life, they’d have crippling co-dependency issues.
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 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 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 worked as a writer, lead designer, and creative director in the game industry.
I fictionship. I love fictional men.
I’m always excited to see my good buddy Richelle Mead. She cracks me up. I never get to see Veronica Roth enough, either.
