It's like how science fiction in the '50s was a way of talking about war without actually having to risk any political capital. The obvious metaphor is power and powerlessness, but I also think it's a way of experimenting with dangerous feelings in a safe arena and trying things out.

Margaret Stohl

We love what we love, and shared fandoms bring people of all ages and backgrounds into one great tribe.

Margaret Stohl

The Lowcountry traditionally is a logical place where the big ships stopped and brought new things in from the ocean, and the islands have a mystical tradition. It is such a visual place, too, with these iconic villages with the Spanish moss and the village and historical homes and the coast.

Margaret Stohl

I grew up sitting in my closet waiting to go Narnia.

Margaret Stohl

Everything I write is about big feelings. What I care about is trying to be brave enough to feel how you feel and to be emotionally true.

Margaret Stohl

Sam and Dean Winchester sitting on the top of the Impala sharing their feelings over a beer is a reward worth driving any 'Supernatural' demon away - but in real life, they'd have crippling co-dependency issues.

Margaret Stohl

Getting books out into the world helps us all.

Margaret Stohl

I first read Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' as a teen in school, like you did. I read the book alone, eating lunch at my locker, neatly scored oranges my mother divided into five lines with a circle at the top, so my fingers could dig more easily into the orange skin. To this day, the smell of oranges reminds me of 'Mockingbird.'

Margaret Stohl

Writing is the easy part. The 'getting it right' part is harder.

Margaret Stohl

I fictionship. I love fictional men.

Margaret Stohl

I like to make an outline or cards and then utterly ignore them.

Margaret Stohl

I always say, 'I'm cracked. My characters are cracked. And you, reader, you're cracked, too.'

Margaret Stohl

People ask why do I write strong women characters, and basically, all the girls I know are strong; the girls I've had are strong. The women in my life are strong.

Margaret Stohl

I understand that fictional men aren't real. Not 'really real'. I know this the same way I wonder if my readers are disappointed when they meet me.

Margaret Stohl

There's a lot of loneliness in a book tour. A lot of grilled cheese sandwiches alone in your hotel at night.

Margaret Stohl

We kept my middle schooler home from school for three days before we turned in our final draft because she was so mean and so brutal at editing out all the cheesy bits. She would roll her eyes and make fun of us, and it was what we needed.

Margaret Stohl

Alden Ehrenreich is a drama nerd, and Alice Englert is indie girl. They're so cool in the way that our characters are cool.

Margaret Stohl

I was raised in a community of Christian orthodoxy that had traveled with my parents to Los Angeles when they moved there for my father's job.

Margaret Stohl

I was very shy - I didn't speak to anyone outside of my family until the fourth grade.

Margaret Stohl

I worked in videogames for 16 years before writing my first book in 2009.

Margaret Stohl

The privilege, and the challenges, of taking on Black Widow have never been lost on me. I worked on the first 'Spiderman' game as well as 'Fantastic Four,' and I had always wanted to be able to tell more of a character-driven comic book story than was possible to fit into a game narrative.

Margaret Stohl