Amanda Hocking
I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.Collection: Famous
I was always depressed growing up. There wasn't a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I wrote a lot, and I read a lot; and that was how I dealt with it.Collection: Sad
My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story that's really elaborate about werewolves and wolves.
When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories.
I think I draw most inspiration from writers like Richelle Mead and filmmakers like John Hughes. They both really understand the experience of being a teenager and how insistent and intense everything feels, but they're also smart, savvy, and fun.
I've taken every writing class I've had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in community college, but I dropped out of college. I also attended a local writing workshop two years ago.
I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done.
It feels so weird to be able to just kind of buy things when I want them or need them.
Self-publishing is great, but I don't want to be an icon for it, or anything else.
Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and hang out and I'd sit home and write instead.
People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And if they end up not being any good, I don't have to keep using them.
I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc.
I priced my books at what I would want to spend on an electronic book.
I still have the same friends I've had for the last 15 or 20 years.
I usually plan to read a book for a half-hour before bed, but then I end up staying awake until 3 A.M. to finish it. Fortunately, my dog doesn't mind when I keep the bedside lamp on.
I have a screened in porch, and it's nice to curl up with a book outside when it's raining, especially an old battered classic like 'Pride & Prejudice & Zombies.'
Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book always makes it easier.
I don't really like fairies.
For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart.
This is the way the world ends; not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.Collection: Doors
Mark my words, Princess,” Loki said. “One day, you’ll be madly in love with me.Collection: Princess
When something is important to you, you make sure its safe.Collection: Important
Sometimes it seems to me that that’s all my life has been, a series of things that I loved deeply that I could never have.Collection: Sometimes
I guess what I'm trying to say is that you can't live somebody else's life for them. They have to make their own choices, and sometimes all we can do is learn to live with them.Collection: Choices
Being liked for the way you looked is worse than not being liked at all.Collection: Way
Sometimes the best course in the search for the meaning of life is to busy yourself until you forget that you don't know the meaning of lifeCollection: Meaning Of Life
When you dance with the devil, the devil doesn't change. The devil changes you.Collection: Devil
During our session, I told Tove about how I'd done mind-speak on Duncan, but it only worked when I was irritated. Using that logic,Tove spent most of the morning trying to irritate me into using it. Sometimes it worked, but most of the time I just got pointlessly annoyed.Collection: Morning
Everything I went through," he said. "For you. It was worth it.Collection: Said
The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor.Collection: Doing You
And I have two eyes. I’ve seen that little melodrama play out between you and that other tracker. Fish? Flounder? What’s his name?Collection: Eye
You don't want me here, I don't wanna be here, so why am I here?Collection: Want
I don't want only one night. I want all the nights. I want all of you, forever.Collection: Night
I don't think I've ever really had a home before, not until I met you.Collection: Home
Not all prisons have barsCollection: Bars
When you mix dirt with water, the dirt doesn't get clean. The water just gets dirty.Collection: Dirty
You know, back in the day, when a guy saved a Princess's life, she would reward him with a kiss.Collection: Princess
I don't need love or a man to complete me,and someday, you'll find that true for yourself. Suitors will come and go, but you will remain.Collection: Men
I was always writing. When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories. But as soon I as capable, I started writing. I filled notebooks and notebooks until I got my first computer when I was 11. It never really occurred to me that I would do anything else.Collection: Notebook
Every man would fall in love with their voice, their lovely appearance, but no man would ever get past that. They'd never really know the girls for who they actually were, never really love them. It would be impossible for any of the four girls to ever really fall in love and be genuinely loved in return.Collection: Girl
the way it always did.Collection: Way
Can I cut off your head?" "Are you asking for my permission?Collection: Cutting
I hate that you do this to me. I hate how crazy you make me. I hate you! - WendyCollection: Hate
Some books and authors are best sellers, but most aren't. It may be easier to self-publish than it is to traditionally publish, but in all honesty, it's harder to be a best seller self-publishing than it is with a house.Collection: Honesty
She's the princess. She commanded and I obeyed!"-Loki "You don't obey a suicide mission!"-FinnCollection: Suicide
All the stereotypical ‘dude’ geeky things I like are socially acceptable, and all the stereotypical ‘lady’ geeky things I like are frowned upon….Collection: Acceptable
Loki," I said. "Hey, Princess." He smiled dazedly as he looked up at me. "What's wrong?" "Nothing." I smiled and shook my head. "Not anymore." "What's this?" He took my hair and held it out so i could see. A curl near the front had gone completely silver. "I take a nap, and you go gray?" "You didn't take a nap." I laughed. "Don't you remember what happened?" He furrowed his brow, trying to remember, and understanding flashed in his eyes. "I remember..." Loki touched my face. "I remember that I love you." I bent down, kissing him full on the mouth, and he held me to him.Collection: Princess
Tomorrow you will belong to someone else," Finn said. "But tonight, you're with meCollection: Tonight
A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't.Collection: Wise
There was something almost painful about that, the intensity of being so vulnerable and so intimate with him.Collection: Vulnerable