Quotes from Meg Cabot

In high school, I was very active in extracurricular activities such as art, theatre, and choir. I also wrote for the school newspaper, but not regularly, because I never liked writing non-fiction very much.

Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.

I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.

When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone.

Sometimes in life, you fall down holes you can't climb out of by yourself. That's what friends and family are for-to help. They can't help, however, unless you let them know you're down there.

It's only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they have to bust out of their own coffins and do the saving themselves.

If all people became ghosts my social life would be so over" - Suze Simon in the Mediator

Someday you're really going to have to describe to me in more detail what life is like on the planet you live on. Because it sounds really great, and I'd like to visit there one day.

Lilly says I have an overactive imagination and a pathological need to invent drama in my life.

Remember, if you don't feel passionate about the characters and subject of your story, your readers won't either.

My heart is broken. It really is. All the signs are there. I can't sleep- not even burgers. Every time the phone rings, my pulse leaps... But it's never for me, it's never him.

And eternity is a long time. So if you have to spend it with someone I could see wanting to spend it with someone impossible...but interesting.

My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons.

Writing is a workout, just like going for a run!

But it's there. Just because I haven't told anyone doesn't mean it isn't there, all the time, lurking in the back of my mind, like one those NSync songs you can't get out of your head.

See? Anger can be healthy. When the time comes–and it will come–remember that. And what I said. Embrace your powers–love yourself the way Nature made you, and you will prevail. Always.

Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible. She's not dead. Not this time.

I get accused all the time of having a big mouth. But if you ask me, guys gossip way more than girls do.

You didn't," John said, stepping from the shadows as he clapped for me, "even hit your head this time.

But I intend to enjoy the weeks I have left with you to the fullest. Because I know from my study of the philosophy of time, whatever is going to happen in the future is already unavoidable.

But then I remembered something Grandmere had once assured me of: No one has ever died of embarrassment-never, not once in the whole history of time.

Summer is my favorite time to read mysteries.

Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.

All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have to change the character a little bit in case your friend or your relative reads the book, because you don't want them to know you wrote about them... They might get mad.