Quotes from D. J. MacHale

I'd love to play the piano, and I'm going to work on it.

In my few short years I learned that seeing what's positive about a situation is a lot more fun and gets you a lot further than looking for what might be wrong with it.

You can't have pride without humility. Aggression without tolerance. Strength without compassion. Power without restraint.

A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.

My life is an ongoing, ever changing adventure.

Next time you wish to feed me poison, warn me first," Loor demanded. (The Merchant of Death)

To write, you need to find what you love.

The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.

I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.

It wasn't that I didn't trust Mark's flying, it was just that, okay, I didn't trust Mark's flying.

I love you Mark..." Courtney, PoR. I love you too Courtney..." Mark, PoR.

Damon Scares me,' Maggie said. 'Maybe you should do what he wants.' 'Can't.' 'Why not?' 'Because he killed me. That kind of pisses me off

To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.

There are two types of people in this world. People who hate clowns...and clowns. (Bobby Pendragon)

Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.

Perhaps you should bite me", Bobby Pendragon.

I saw the horrible way that people could treat each other. That may be the saddest thing of all. I saw greed and anger and murder and a total lack of concern for human life. It was a wicked side of the human soul that I saw... and it saddened me to know that such a dark place existed.

Hobey-ho here we go.....

I'm not sure if he physically changes, or if he uses some kind of mind control to make you think he looks different, but the bottom line is you don't always see him coming. And make no mistake about it, the guy is evil.

It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.

There will be no more protests. No more dissension. No more violence. There will be only one voice. The voice of Ravinia. The voice of Halla. Your voice." "There goes freedom of speech," I said.

Before I can face the future, I must first deal with the past.