Sarah Mlynowski Quotes

I’m up at 8:30 every morning, and I write from about 9:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. – with some breaks, of course. I really try to see writing as a career that I turn off when my husband comes home from work. Otherwise, writing could very easily become all-consuming.

– Sarah Mlynowski

I think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too.

– Sarah Mlynowski

I’ve always wanted to be a part of that experience of writing to an audience that is just starting to fall in love with books. When I felt that my writing for adults had become cemented, I decided to write a YA series.

– Sarah Mlynowski

My cellphone calls random people.

– Sarah Mlynowski

In ‘Bras & Broomsticks,’ Rachel Weinstein gets the shock of her life when she discovers that her mom and her younger sister, Miri, are both… witches! In ‘Frogs & French Kisses,’ Rachel and her witchy family are back – Miri is busy zapping up ways to save the world, while Mom has gone boy crazy and become a magicaholic.

– Sarah Mlynowski

I always work from an outline.

– Sarah Mlynowski

I feel more pressure when I’m writing for teens. I’m very aware that my audience is impressionable. Therefore, I’m far more careful about what I say and the language I use.

– Sarah Mlynowski

I watch a lot of teen TV and read a lot of YA novels. I also talk to teens whenever I can. There are cultural differences between when I was a teen and now, but emotions – anger, angst, love – are the same.

– Sarah Mlynowski

Even though I knew my way around Facebook, Twitter terrified me. RT? OH? Hootsuite? Huh? My Twitter-savvy friends attempted to explain what a hashtag was, but, still mystified, I signed up for an online Twitter 101 class. Yes. I’m geeky like that.

– Sarah Mlynowski

When you go on vacation with people, you learn a lot about them.

– Sarah Mlynowski

I started a MySpace teen lit discussion group and invited people to join.

– Sarah Mlynowski