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.
From Maggie Stiefvater
'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.
The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
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.
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.
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.
I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.
I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.
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.
Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.
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