Holly Black
Holly Black
Holly Black née Riggenbachis an American writer and editor best known for The Spiderwick Chronicles, a series of children's fantasy books she created with writer and illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, and a trilogy of Young Adult novels officially called the Modern Faerie Tales trilogy. Her 2013 novel Doll Bones was named a Newbery Medal honor book...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth10 November 1971
CityWest Long Branch, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
When we talk about good books, we often talk about good sentences, but what we rarely talk about is reader pleasure. Yet it is reader pleasure that is going to make a book break out into the kind of success that makes it into a household name.
I am not very good at sticking to outlines, and I double back all the time to revisit scenes and change things.
Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.
Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.
He looks like the good boy he's never been.
I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.
I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.
Life's full of opportunities to make crappy decisions that feel good. And after the first one, the rest get a whole lot easier.
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.'
You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want.
Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.
I'm not a fast writer, and I find the process of writing a first draft to be painful and frustrating. Usually, I start with a character, a premise, and some image that gives me a particular feeling.
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.
I think there's a reason that horror appeals to teens. There's a lot of useful lessons to take away from reading horror. We get to be scared in the comfort and safety of our own homes. We can put the book down if we get too scared, and no one will ever know if we decide not to pick it up again.