Living In the Pages

"I just needed a piece of me, and a challenge—and it took off so quickly.”Willow Winters

"I feel like I don't have a choice of what my characters do in my books—ever.”— Anna Todd

"That's the thing with my books; I feel like they're all so different from one another that, if you're not in the right ... Read more

"That to me is what writing is about—trying to capture those feelings that we all feel, and bring them into words that m... Read more

"I got Microsoft Word, I got unemployed, I got a computer, I didn't know what to do with it—so I started writing books.”... Read more

"They're not the typical warm and fuzzy [characters]—they're broken, and raw, and honest—so, that's the kind of people I... Read more

"The ones I wrote about were my serious, long-term boyfriends. I had plenty of duds in between that were not book worthy... Read more

"I want to do a long view of what different situations look like to different characters.I write a lot of stuff that’s j... Read more

"I've been trying to desensitize myself, but it doesn't work...it just got really hot in here.”Matt Russikoff — She Said... Read more

"I thought it would be interesting to see the world that I knew through the eyes of these two young people.”— Paullina S... Read more

"Once you get to know your characters, they like to take the story in a different direction sometimes...I find that figh... Read more

"At the end of the day, I've still got to get up and take the trash out and mow the yard and walk the dogs and, you know... Read more

"I've always just been that person who has these wild thoughts. So I like that instead of torturing my friends, I can ju... Read more

"We’re not very good plotters. We basically know maybe one page of stuff when we start. We’ll know maybe what the twist ... Read more

"Bits of my experiences now have been planted in my works before...Maybe it's not so strange. Maybe all of that is alrea... Read more

"It felt like me embracing myself, and it felt really healthy. I loved doing that.”— Helen Hoang

"It was a little bit of an uneven process in, kind of, building these three women in different ways. But I found it a gr... Read more

"It’s about longevity for me—this is what I want to keep doing.There are so many things you can’t control about being an... Read more

"If you would have asked me last March when I hit ‘publish’ on that first book if I would have the relationships with re... Read more

"When I’m stuck, I have to just get away from the computer. Staring at the screen does nothing for me…”— Melanie Harlow