Quotes from Laini Taylor

When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.

During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.

It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

...they cupped their wings around their happiness and called it a world, though they both knew it was not a world, only a hiding place, which is a very different thing.

It's not stalking if you don't follow them home, right?

I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free.

The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.

Your heart is not wrong. Your heart is your strength. You don't have to be ashamed.

A wave of weariness took him. How could life be so unrelentingly ugly?

Long life is a burden, when it's spent in misery.

Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master, or death is

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them. And its snap split the world in two.

As long as he had life, who deserved it so little, he would use it, wield it, and do whatever he could in its name, even if it was not, was never, enough

Once upon a time, there were two moons, who were sisters. Nitid was the goddess of tears and life, and the sky was hers. No one worshipped Ellai but secret lovers.

I've always imagined that one day the path of your life would unroll at your feet and carry you away from us. As it should, as it must. But I am glad that day is not today.

The worst moment of one's life could be seared into the memory, brighter than any joy.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

Once upon a time, the sky knew the weight of angel armies on the move, and the wind blew infernal with the fire of their wings.

He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again.

The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.

Once upon a time, a girl lived in a sandcastle, making monsters to send through a hole in the sky.

We are the beginning ... We always have been. This time, let it be more than a beginning.

Once upon a time, a little girl was raised by monsters. But angels burned the doorways to their world, and she was all alone.