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About Holly Black
American writer and editor
Holly Black is an American writer and editor known for children’s and young adult fiction. She is especially recognized for the Folk of the Air series, her most recent work, and for her long career in fantasy writing. Black is also known for The Spiderwick Chronicles, which she created with writer and illustrator Tony DiTerlizzi, and for her debut trilogy, Modern Faerie Tales. Her work has earned a Nebula Award, a Newbery Honor, and a Mythopoeic Award. The Spiderwick Chronicles was adapted into a 2008 film and a 2023 television series, which brought her a nomination for the Children’s and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Young Teen Series.
More from Holly Black (110 quotes) →Other sayings from Holly Black
- “I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.”Holly Black
- “Can't get away from your own self.”Holly Black
- “We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing…”Holly Black
- “If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you."Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.”Holly Black
Despair: more sayings
- “Death, he felt, was only a kind of warning rather than a desperate and permanent end.”László Krasznahorkai
- “The danger of prolonged despair is its tendency to cloud the gift of a new beginning that every tomorrow offe…”Zack Love
- “If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.”Robert Graves
Explore Grief
- “Grief helps you come to grips with the loss of a loved one. Guilt helps you make better moral decisions or br…”Stephen Richards
- “I don't say goodbye very easily, Anna. Not gracefully or prettily.Goodbye tears your heart out and leaves it…”Patricia Briggs
- “Can the beautiful be sad? Is beauty inseparable from the ephemeral and hence from mourning? Or else is the be…”Julia Kristeva
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Books by Holly Black
The Spiderwick Chronicles
2008
The Wicked King
2019
Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles
2009
The Cruel Prince
2018
Ironside
2009