Holly Black Good Quotations

I am not very good at sticking to outlines, and I double back all the time to revisit scenes and change things.

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.'

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.

Life's full of opportunities to make crappy decisions that feel good. And after the first one, the rest get a whole lot easier.

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.

I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.

He looks like the good boy he's never been.

Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.

Instead, it just reminded her that sometimes there were no good choices.