1,704 Quotes by Maggie Stiefvater

My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.

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'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.

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.

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.

Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.

The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.

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