Latest Maggie Stiefvater Quotes from Interviews

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• Panic leads to carelessness, and carelessness creates accidents.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Panic, Accidents, Carelessness

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver”, p.34, Scholastic UK

• I'm fascinated about how past events shape our perception of current events and how they make us the people we are.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Past, People, Perception

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

• I am not a huge fan of the one-sided pining romances where the guy is a perfect love-object because we don't see inside his head.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Perfect, Guy, Romance

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

• I don't care for werewolves. They're all right, I guess, if you go for the shedding, savaging the country-side thing. But they're not very scary nor very sexy and so what's the point?

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Sexy, Country, Scary

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

• I grew up with boys of all kinds - I have two brothers, and I was in a bagpipe band for several years.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Brother, Boys, Years

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

• Imagine my delight and awe when I discovered such a thing was a real genre - contemporary fantasy or urban fantasy. It was like having my birthday twice in one week and cookie dough for breakfast.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Real, My Birthday, Cookies

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

• I've always loved reading fantasy. I used to pick out all the books in the library that had the little unicorn sticker on the side to show that they were fantasy.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Book, Reading, Library

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

• I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Reality, Choices, Fantasy

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

• Who need to read about real life when there's dragons. Come on!

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Real, Real Life, Dragons

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

• I like to hear from my readers, and I like to feel like I'm part of a bigger community of readers and writers.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Community, Bigger, Reader

  Source: www.seventeen.com

• My most memorable adventure was investigating the chalk cliffs in Yorkshire. While clambering over kelp-covered boulders half-covered by the sea, I fell and smashed my tail bone on one of them.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Memorable, Adventure, Sea

  Source: www.seventeen.com

• I remember [in teenage years] thinking there were a lot of check boxes out there to sort teens into appropriate molds, and they didn't seem to make check boxes for whatever it was that I had grown up into. I definitely explore that a lot in my novels.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Teenage, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.seventeen.com

• There are three big things going for The Scorpio Races: first, it is set on a beautiful but wild island in the middle of the cold Atlantic Ocean. That would've seduced me as a teen reader. Second, It is full of beautiful but killer horses being trained for a dangerous race. Actually, that would've seduced me as a teen reader as well. At third it involves a very repressed love story with a very Mr. Darcy-like love interest.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Beautiful, Horse, Ocean

  Source: www.seventeen.com