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Holly Black

In the older folklore, faeries were frightening beings. In fact, it was such a bad idea to get their attention that people would use flattering euphemisms for them, such as ‘the people of peace,’ ‘the little people,’ and ‘the good neighbors.’

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Holly Black

Writers usually don’t get to pick our own covers. I know it’s surprising to hear that.

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Holly Black

One of my favorite things in books is watching someone make the mistake. You know it’s going to happen. You keep thinking: ‘Don’t do it!’ But of course they’re going to do it. It’s riveting. You learn through them that it’s okay. It’s the ecstatic fall, where you watch someone make that terrible decision, and there’s such pleasure in it.

– Holly Black

Holly Black

Three hundred words in a day is not a lot. So much of it is thinking before writing. And then there’s the cutting. But you do what you do and keep moving forward.

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Holly Black

Everything scares me. I’m very easily frightened. But the thing that scares me most is zombies. I really, really don’t like zombies.

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Holly Black

I wrote a book called ‘Doll Bones’, which was another middle-grade book, and when I was writing it, I needed a place in the U.S. that made bone china. And there are only two places in the U.S. that make bone china. They made it by grinding down actual cow bones. It was a plot point. It was a creepy doll book.

– Holly Black

Holly Black

Doctor Who’ rewrites your brain because at first when you watch it, you think, ‘That doesn’t make sense.’

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Holly Black

When I was a kid in the U.S., ‘Doctor Who’ wasn’t really on, but you would occasionally catch an episode. Different stations did marathons.

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Holly Black

Twilight’ passed like a fever through the sophisticated reader and the unsophisticated reader alike. People devoured those books in single sittings, over weekends, with a kind of raw intensity that is rare.

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Holly Black

Can you write 200 words a day? 100? 50? In six months, 50 words a day is 9,000 words. That’s 2-3 short stories. If you did 200 words every day, in three months that’s 36,000 words. That’s half a short novel.

– Holly Black

Holly Black

I really love being a weirdo who writes a lot of different things for a lot of different ages. I have been considering doing a guide on my website so that a reader who liked one of my books could find the other books that he or she might like, because I know some of the books are really different from the rest.

– Holly Black

Holly Black

There’s never really been a time when vampires weren’t so over that you would be crazy to write a vampire book, or so huge that you would be crazy to write a vampire book. I’m not sure there’s ever going to be a time. We went from Anne Rice to Buffy to ‘Twilight.’

– Holly Black

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