I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years – I love having the chance to relive them through my fiction. – Meg Cabot
My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers! – Meg Cabot
There’s nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne. – Meg Cabot
This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists… by spending time alone practicing what they love. – Meg Cabot
Pretty isn’t the only thing that matters – being smart and kind matters more, of course – but all daughters should hear from their moms that they look pretty once in a while. – Meg Cabot
One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did. – Meg Cabot
All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have to change the character a little bit in case your friend or your relative reads the book, because you don’t want them to know you wrote about them… They might get mad. – Meg Cabot
I think you get so wrapped up in the book you’re currently writing, it’s hard to think about anything else. But I know as soon as I’m done with this book, I’ll move on to something else. – Meg Cabot
Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book ‘Jane Eyre’ by Jane Austen. It introduced me to the world of romance, which I have since never left. Also, the world of the first-person narrative. – Meg Cabot
My family, they’re story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we weren’t allowed to watch TV while we ate – we had to sit around the table and tell stories about our day. – Meg Cabot
Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it’s my job, I have no hobby – except watching TV and laying around the pool reading ‘U.S. Weekly.’ I have tried many hobbies, such as knitting, Pilates, ballet, yoga, and guitar, but none of them have taken. – Meg Cabot
If you’re writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there’s a good chance the words you write aren’t going to be the ones that end up on screen. – Meg Cabot
I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on… and The Princess Diaries was born! – Meg Cabot
Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either. – Meg Cabot
I think if I hadn’t been a writer, I’d have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college professor, and one of my greatest regrets is that he passed away before I was able to prove to him that I wasn’t going to be stuck working at Rax Roast Beef for the rest of my life! – Meg Cabot
Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh. – Meg Cabot
When I was a kid, I had a couple of really good friends, like some really good best friends, but I was really shy other than that. – Meg Cabot
I like to think of my books and the movies of my books living in two separate universes. Each is very nice, but only one is correct – the book. But that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the other versions, and I always do. – Meg Cabot
Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it’s just you, with input from your editor. – Meg Cabot
No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one’s back. – Meg Cabot
I was the kind of kid who couldn’t really stop making up stories during class. I didn’t do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn’t bringing home the best grades. – Meg Cabot
When I did see the story of Persephone, I was really drawn to it. Persephone, the goddess of spring, was kept from Olympus by her mother, Demeter, because Demeter was very worried that the gods of Olympus would do something terrible to her. – Meg Cabot
