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Cassandra Clare

You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.

— Cassandra Clare writer

And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny.

— Cassandra Clare love

Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but the book will be pretty boring.

— Cassandra Clare self

There's a stigma that guys hate romance and hate love, but that's not true. Look at 'Iron Man.' There's a whole through-line plot about his relationship with Pepper, and everybody loves it.

— Cassandra Clare love

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.

— Cassandra Clare people

I am in the U.K. for inspiration because I'm doing a follow on series to 'The Infernal Devices,' called 'The Last Hours.' It's a re-telling of 'Great Expectations' with 'Shadowhunters'... because why not! It's set in 1903, so I'm doing a lot of locational research.

— Cassandra Clare inspiration

I firmly believe that you can't get a good movie without risking a bad movie. A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto the screen.

— Cassandra Clare world

'City of Fallen Angels' ended on a cliffhanger. That was equally loved and hated by my readership.

— Cassandra Clare love

I have specific playlists for different books and characters. So, I need to have those with me. It helps me get into the mindset of the book.

— Cassandra Clare books

I think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters.

— Cassandra Clare writing

My grandfather was a movie producer, and so I grew up on movie sets.

— Cassandra Clare father

Nobody sells books like J.K. Rowling. We have a rule in publishing: Never compare anything to 'Harry Potter' because it's like lightning in a bottle.

— Cassandra Clare books

As long as they're making beloved books into movies, people are going to be like, 'That's not my mental image of them.' It takes that moment for it to click and become their mental image.

— Cassandra Clare love

For me, the triad of 'Harry Potter,' the 'Hunger Games' and 'Twilight' feature strong women, and as a declared feminist, it's a wonderful thing. These women have really opened up this particular world of storytelling, which I'm very grateful for.

— Cassandra Clare women

I believe that writer's block is a symptom. It's not a disease, it's the symptom of a disease. So what I try to do is kind of do it like 'House'; write down the symptom and write down the other symptoms. Try to work backwards to figure out what the problem is.

— Cassandra Clare war

I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore. I find that, you know, stories people told each other thousands of years ago are still relevant now.

— Cassandra Clare inspiration

I tend to write in coffee shops and restaurants with friends of mine because if I'm at home, I get distracted by the television or the cats or my husband, or... you know - all of those things that make it easy to procrastinate.

— Cassandra Clare friends

I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's a saying in publishing that girls will read about boys, but boys will only read about boys, and it's important to give women strong heroines.

— Cassandra Clare women

I think that 'City of Heavenly Fire' is definitely a book where all the characters are tested to their limits, and they have to make really significant choices about who they are and who they wanna be.

— Cassandra Clare choices

No matter how many books you've written, whenever you sit down to write a new book, you always feel the same challenge - how do you shape this story into a book that people are going to love.

— Cassandra Clare love

When a movie is being made out of a book, there is a mixed reaction on the part of fans because they are both extremely excited and they are also terrified. 'They are going to take my story, and they are going to mess it up; they are going to ruin it; they're going to do this; they're going to do that.'

— Cassandra Clare art

Write every day. Don't kill yourself. I think a lot of people think, 'I have to write a chapter a day' and they can't. They fall behind and stop doing it. But if you just write even one hundred words a day, it's not that much. By the end of a month, you'll have three thousand words, which is one chapter.

— Cassandra Clare people

You put books out into the world, and people form their own visuals and images and attachments to characters; those characters become part of them, and they have their feelings about them.

— Cassandra Clare books

I love scuba-diving, but I hate all the equipment.

— Cassandra Clare love

My father is a big believer in nature over nurture.

— Cassandra Clare nature

Youre a reader as well as a writer, so write what youd want to read.

— Cassandra Clare writer

Love potions? For Will Herondale? T’aint my way to turn down payment, but any man who looks like you has got no need of love potions, and that’s a fact.

— Cassandra Clare love

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