Maggie Stiefvater Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• ...she made her home in between the pages of books.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Book, Home, Pages

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.338, Scholastic Inc.

• This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Book, Hands, Going Away

• Books are more real when you read them outside.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Real, Book, Shiver

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver”, p.175, Scholastic UK

• As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Book, Air, Smell

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.11, Scholastic Inc.

• I couldn't imagine anyone ever reading a book enough to make it look like that. It looked like it had been driven over by a school bus after someone had taken a bath with it.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Taken, Reading, Book

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.442, Scholastic Inc.

• You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Book, Writing, Lines

• Once upon a time, there was a girl named Grace Brisbane. There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home in between the pages of books. She loved all the wolves behind her house, but she love one of them most of all.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Girl, Lying, Book

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.338, Scholastic Inc.

• I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I missed the cold of her feet against my legs when she climbed into bed. I missed the shape of her shadow where it fell across the page of my book. I missed the smell of her hair and the sound of her breath and my Rilke on her nightstand and her wet towel thrown over the back of her desk chair. It felt like I should be sated after having a whole day with her, but it just made me miss her more.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Book, Smell, Feet

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.289, Scholastic Inc.

• Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Book, Writing, Shelves

• Then I picked my book back up again and stroked her hair and read to the soundtrack of her breaths.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Book, Hair, Soundtracks

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.645, Scholastic Inc.

• Do you know how some people can do anything?” “What do you mean?” “I mean, you tell them to write a tune, they give you a symphony right there. You tell them to write a book, they write you a novel in a day. You tell them to move a spoon without touching it, they move it. If they want something, they make it happen. Miracles, almost.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Moving, Book, Writing

• This summer-sweet night is only one minute upon one minute upon another Beautiful cacophony, sugar upon lips, dancing to exhaustion I thought of you, before this minute upon another minute upon another Until, numb, my lips fell onto the mouth of another, and I was undone. ~from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter which is a fictional book in Ballad: A gathering of faerie

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Beautiful, Summer, Sweet

  Maggie Stiefvater (2010). “Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie”, p.131, North Star Editions, Inc.

• 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

  Book, Important, Done

• 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

  Book, Wife, Cry

• There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Book, Matter, Good Book

• 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

  Mistake, Book, Creativity

  "How to Win the 2012 Fiction Contest!" by Laura Rosenfeld, www.seventeen.com. September 1, 2011.

• 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

  Book, Ideas, Work Out

  "'Shiver' author Maggie Stiefvater ready to see her werewolves on the big screen" by Sabrina Weiss, www.mtv.com. October 23, 2009.

• 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 think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Book, Thinking, Challenges

• Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Horse, Crazy, Book

• 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, Filmmaker

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