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Holly Black
Holly Black
American Writer
Born: Nov 10, 1971
Book First Love Time Writing You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research. Holly Black
Life Love You People Research Books Everywhere Inspiration Observing Etc Movies
Into every generation comes a vampire. Holly Black
Generation Every Vampire
Vampires aren't made - they're just born that way, and no one knows why. They're sort of a race unto themselves. Holly Black
Made Way Vampires Born No-One Unto Sort Knows Just Race Themselves Why
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
Book Writing Made Down Bone Plot Only Point Wrote Make Another Doll Cow Place Which China Places Grinding Actual Two Needed Creepy Bones
One of the great things about writing middle-grade books is that it's really a nice break, when you're writing super intense stuff like 'Coldtown', to be able to write something a little lighter - calm down and do something different. Holly Black
Great You Writing Great Things Calm Down Nice Books Super Able About Something Write Lighter Stuff Like Calm Down Intense Different Break Little Really Things
What I've always loved about faeries is the way that they, unlike so many other supernatural creatures, are not human and have never been human. They have different customs and different taboos, and woe to anyone who breaks them. Holly Black
Other Unlike Way Taboos About Supernatural Never Always Woe Been Human Different Anyone Loved Breaks Them Customs Who Many Creatures
'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. Holly Black
People Rare Single Books Alike Those Kind Through Weekends Raw Over Like Sophisticated Reader Devoured Passed Fever Intensity Twilight
I loved Anne Rice's 'Interview with a Vampire' and 'The Vampire Lestat'. I found a copy of 'Interview' when I was in seventh grade at a garage sale for 25 cents. It had a crazy cover. Holly Black
Crazy Interview Seventh Vampire Had Anne Cover Sale Grade Loved Rice Cents Garage Found Copy
The problem with faerie gifts is that they always come with a price, which is why they are made by the desperate and the foolish. Holly Black
Problem Desperate Made Gifts Foolish Price Come Always The Problem With Which Why
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. Holly Black
Character Me Writing First Feeling Find Some Gives Writer Particular Process Frustrating Painful Premise Fast Image Start Draft
I revise a lot while I'm drafting, often going back to the beginning again and again to revise because I've changed massive things about the story. By the time I get to the end of a first draft, I've been through the beginning lots of times. Holly Black
Time First Beginning Changed Back About Through Massive Because Been Lot Lots Revise End Times Get Going Often Story While Again Things Draft Drafting By The Time
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
Time Crazy You Book Vampire Vampires Would Would-Be Write Never Anne Over Buffy Sure Were Been Huge Going Rice Really Ever Twilight
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
Website Love Rest Other Books Considering Guide Find Some Could Writes He He Or She Weirdo Like Know Liked She Reader Because Doing Been Lot Being Different Different Ages Might Ages Really Who Different Things Things
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
Day You Every Day Words Three Half Every Months Write Did Six Short Stories Short Stories Novel
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. Holly Black
Success Good Book Books Pleasure Out Kind Rarely About Name Talk Household Make Household Name Reader Makes Going Often Break Sentences
'Doctor Who' rewrites your brain because at first when you watch it, you think, 'That doesn't make sense.' Holly Black
You Doctor First Sense Think Doctor Who Make Because Brain Your Who Watch
I really love the idea of the poetically mad - the character that is imbued with the romantic madness. Like River from 'Firefly' or Drusilla from 'Buffy.' Someone dangerously unhinged, where you're really not sure they're going to be reliable minute-to-minute. Holly Black
Love Character You Madness Dangerously Mad Reliable Someone River Idea Like Buffy Sure Going Where Romantic Really
Faeries are associated with wild untamed nature, with art, and with death - so the folklore is rich with different stories to explore. Holly Black
Death Art Nature Rich Wild Folklore Different Stories Explore Associated

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