"If my brain is starting to hurt with writer’s block, then it’s time to just find something to distract me—because I always find that if I am distracted, that’s when I’m hit with inspiration.”

— Samantha Young

"It probably sounds backwards, but I'm trying to emotionally detach and make it not so serious...They're not necessarily life-changing books, but for me, when I'm writing them, they are coming from a place that was life-changing in my heart.”

— J. Sterling

"Since we started writing together, it's just been such a relief to share in not only the good times that you experience, but also the struggles—because they're there, too. So, it is hard for me to picture writing without her, at this point, for sure.”

— Max Monroe

"There are those people that can sit down and write every day and they write consistently amazing books and they're built to write. But I'm not that person—so it’s good to have found what works for me.”

— Kim Holden

"I feel like this just slipped somewhere into my unconscious, and it's taken a decade—or fifteen years now, at this point—to come out.”

— Julia Whelan

"It felt like me embracing myself, and it felt really healthy. I loved doing that.”

— Helen Hoang

"If you would have asked me last March when I hit ‘publish’ on that first book if I would have the relationships with readers and fellow authors and bloggers that I have today, I would have said ‘You’re crazy.’ It’s wonderful…and it makes it all so much more worthwhile—and so fun.”

— Devney Perry

"I thought this would be any interesting way to explore that feeling without it just being me talking about being sad all the time. It would be a slightly more fun way of exploring a very dark topic.”

— Isaac Marion

"My big dream was 'I want to be an actor,' and the secret dream was 'I want to write!'”

— Cat Porter

"I walk to the train every day and I see different people, and I make assumptions about them in my head. I say 'Oh, they would make a good character...'”

— Christine Brae