Quotes from Margaret Stohl

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.

It's a fallacy that people think that today's teenagers are shallow or somehow less intelligent than in the past.

Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.

I worked as a writer, lead designer, and creative director in the game industry.

There's a lot of loneliness in a book tour. A lot of grilled cheese sandwiches alone in your hotel at night.

I was very shy - I didn't speak to anyone outside of my family until the fourth grade.

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.

If you look at 'Doctor Who,' it's a Time Lord in a blue box who travels around the universe. It's a silly concept, but it's one of the most brilliant, emotional experiences because it's sort of about what is humanity.

We love what we love, and shared fandoms bring people of all ages and backgrounds into one great tribe.

My solo novel 'Icons' was optioned by Alcon Entertainment, the folks who made the 'Beautiful Creatures' movie, and that's gotten as far as a script, but no news yet.

Alden Ehrenreich is a drama nerd, and Alice Englert is indie girl. They're so cool in the way that our characters are cool.

At heart, I would have to say I'm a pantser. I fully embrace the chaos of letting the unintended happen, on life and on the page.

I was the person who stayed awake reading by the nightlight until the scary shadows made me crazy.

I was an obsessive fantasy reader from the time I could read at all.

I like to make an outline or cards and then utterly ignore them.

People ask why do I write strong women characters, and basically, all the girls I know are strong; the girls I've had are strong. The women in my life are strong.

I'm always excited to see my good buddy Richelle Mead. She cracks me up. I never get to see Veronica Roth enough, either.

I worked in videogames for 16 years before writing my first book in 2009.