Emma Holly quote: "I did have a nice career in print, but traditional publishers don't always have the resources to create individualized marketing for their authors. Mine never figured out how to package books as hot as mine so that they found their full audience. Finally, I got frustrated enough over my lack of traction to walk away."

Alpha heroes, even uberalpha heroes, still win readers' hearts. I like a masterful hero myself, ...
EMMA HOLLY

‎"You want more?" she asked a bit breathlessly. "Even after what we did?"
His mouth took on a...
EMMA HOLLY

I have two much-beloved stovetop espresso pots at home, plus a couple French presses I couldn't ...
EMMA HOLLY

Even though I wasn't sure I could make it as an indie, almost immediately I felt as if a weight ...
EMMA HOLLY

I really love the idea of the poetically mad - the character that is imbued with the romantic madnes...
HOLLY BLACK

Some people feel stronger in their 30s. I'm 34. I've noticed I do feel stronger now than whe...
HOLLY HOLM

Good female parts are hard to come by, so I go all over the place to find them: cable TV, network mo...
HOLLY HUNTER

If I could have a Barbie body, which has no cellulite, I totally would. I would like to have a flatt...
HOLLY MADISON

Like, if you look at Heidi Montag, who got 10 surgeries she didn't need, I think that's unfo...
HOLLY MADISON

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.
HOLLY BLACK

I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.
HOLLY BLACK

1. You left a multipack of Mars Bars on top of your wardrobe. Can I have one? Dad x

2. I ...
HOLLY SMALE

I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.
HOLLY BLACK

I think there are a lot of really positive aspects to social media for novelists. Even though our wo...
HOLLY BLACK

They wore their strange beauty like war paint.
HOLLY BLACK

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.
HOLLY BLACK

So just let me deal with it, I can be emotionally flawed and still love you all at the same time. I�...
HOLLY HOOD

So you'll teach me?" Val asked.

Ravus nodded agin. "I will make you as terrible as you de...
HOLLY BLACK

I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' ap...
HOLLY BLACK

She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of w...
HOLLY BLACK

Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.
BUDDY HOLLY

I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pre...
HOLLY HUNTER

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.
LAUREN HOLLY

Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.
HOLLY BLACK

Baby," she says in a harsh whisper, "in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They ...
HOLLY BLACK

If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position ...
HOLLY LISLE

Aim high and don't sell yourself short. Know that you're capable. Understand that a lot of p...
HOLLY HOLM

I'd see people being really successful, whether it was my teammates or big-name fighters like Mu...
HOLLY HOLM

Growing up in Alaska, they don't really teach you to swim there. I learned to swim just a few su...
HOLLY MADISON

There's never really been a time when vampires weren't so over that you would be crazy to wr...
HOLLY BLACK

People think I disappear sporadically, but I just do projects that don't get international accla...
HOLLY HUNTER

I think Ada in 'The Piano' is the most interior character I've ever had the chance to pl...
HOLLY HUNTER

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge mo...
HOLLY NEAR

I think letting babies cry it out is barbaric. Why would parenting stop when it's dark outside? ...
HOLLY COMBS

The unknown makes people uncomfortable. And even living in a city that's as cosmopolitan as New ...
HOLLY HUNTER

I like food too much to go on some crazy diet. French fries are my favorite downfall.
HOLLY MADISON

She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a reall...
HOLLY BLACK

People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrail...
HOLLY BLACK

I figured I got the prettiest, sweetest, smartest wife ever to be," he said softly.
JAN HOLLY

I promise I will repay you.”
“Oh yeah?” she asked, looking at him, with his bare feet an...
HOLLY BLACK

We got it." Val grinned and lifted her fist. "Wonder twin powers activate!"
Ruth grinned back,...
HOLLY BLACK

I would remain nearer you for what time there is."

"Gone in one faerie sigh," she quoted....
HOLLY BLACK

No," said Luis, "You can't date the Lord of the Night Court."
"Well, I'm not, he dumped me." 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...
HOLLY BLACK

You're yourself," Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't se...
HOLLY BLACK

What is it about our expectations, plans, or ideas that hold such sway over us? It is as if we've wr...
HOLLY SPRINK

Mental illnesses grab you by the leg, screaming, and chow you down whole.They make you selfish. They...
HOLLY BOURNE

I was the Playmate editor for 'Playboy' for two years. I produced two years' worth of ce...
HOLLY MADISON

Someday I would like to be the kind of writer who barrels through a draft, but I can't even seem...
HOLLY BLACK

Truthfully, being pregnant is changing me as a person. Each day is part of this amazing journey that...
HOLLY MADISON

I'm not a classically beautiful person, but hopefully it increases my longevity as an actress th...
HOLLY HUNTER

I love to look at physically beautiful people, and obviously others do, too. But there's such a ...
HOLLY HUNTER

Fighting is a very emotionally draining sport. I don't want to waste time on drama beforehand.
HOLLY HOLM

Perfection of effort is not required, by the way. It is the consistency of attempting to work these ...
HOLLY MOSIER

I never kill insects. If I see ants or spiders in the room, I pick them up and take them outside. Ka...
HOLLY VALANCE

I'm a curvy girl and that will never change.
HOLLY MADISON

I'd rather be overweight and curvy than super thin with no curves. I'm proud of my body.
HOLLY MADISON

It's considered a coup to become a lead on a kind of cutting-edge television series. I mean, tha...
HOLLY HUNTER

I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I ha...
HOLLY BLACK

I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.
BUDDY HOLLY

Death is very often referred to as a good career move.
BUDDY HOLLY

I'm not trying to stump anybody, ... It's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.
BUDDY HOLLY

We like this kind of music. Jazz is strictly for stay-at-homes.
BUDDY HOLLY

But that's not so with John. He was very much at the height of his popularity and his creativity. It...
BUDDY HOLLY

Death is very often referred to as a good career move,
BUDDY HOLLY

Without Elvis none of us could have made it.
BUDDY HOLLY

This is one night that can never be repeated again, ... You'll never see all these people, all these...
BUDDY HOLLY

If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they...
BUDDY HOLLY

Sometimes I go, 'Wow, this is a director I really, really want to work with,' like David Cro...
HOLLY HUNTER

I am a huge fan of Cronenberg, all his movies.
HOLLY HUNTER

When Finley gets his vaccinations, it kills me, and you can't protect yourself from that. My hea...
HOLLY COMBS

Technically, the recommendation is part of the governor's decision-making process and should remain ...
HOLLY ARMSTRONG

She didn't ask for this. It was a public safety issue and she just wanted to eliminate any perceptio...
HOLLY ARMSTRONG

She goes by 'Chris,' not 'Christine,' in her everyday life. Calling her Christine would be like usin...
HOLLY ARMSTRONG

Something's got to move. The outcome becomes worse for the state the longer it's put off. This is th...
HOLLY ARMSTRONG

It also puts everyone on elevated alert ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â that we have emergencies ...
HOLLY ARMSTRONG

She's concerned about taxpayers having to pay for health insurance for big employers, which should b...
HOLLY ARMSTRONG

Because the governor hasn't seen a funding ordinance, there's no way for her to weigh in.
HOLLY ARMSTRONG

She's been pretty clear that we need to find a solution and need to look at what the problem is, and...
HOLLY ARMSTRONG

Washington is the only state with a positive balance of trade with China, something we are very prou...
HOLLY ARMSTRONG

She really did her homework on this one and read the analysts.
HOLLY ARMSTRONG

Both my husband and I wanted a boy. I wasn't sure what I'd do with a daughter. What if she a...
HOLLY COMBS

Actors do movies because you want to make a connection; you want an audience to recognise themselves...
HOLLY HUNTER

I revise a lot while I'm drafting, often going back to the beginning again and again to revise b...
HOLLY BLACK

Once I hit 45, there was a real downturn. But I got an incredibly provocative, delicious lead role i...
HOLLY HUNTER

There were so many lead roles available when I was in my thirties. Once I hit 45, there was a real d...
HOLLY HUNTER

We have such a high drop-out rate from musicians, said the head of the college. He was right - I dro...
HOLLY JOHNSON

My Best Friend and I have spent plenty of time together, despite me being in my First Ever Relations...
HOLLY SMALE

Reason to move to New York: I don't to get left behind
HOLLY SMALE

They say that life is just a blank chain, and precious moments are the beads we hang off it to make ...
HOLLY SMALE

Love puts itself first, and makes its own plans. It maps you out instead. Maybe that's what makes it...
HOLLY SMALE

Why do you always rescue me?" — "Every Cinderella needs a fairy godmother. But sometimes your fair...
HOLLY SMALE

And this way, l'll leave everything behind before it gets the chance to do the same to me.
HOLLY SMALE

I can change my plans. But I can't change my family.
HOLLY SMALE

The sad fact is, there are 7.220.400.641 people on the planet, but right now I haven't got a single ...
HOLLY SMALE

'Twilight' passed like a fever through the sophisticated reader and the unsophisticated read...
HOLLY BLACK

I really love being a weirdo who writes a lot of different things for a lot of different ages. I hav...
HOLLY BLACK

He gave her a smile that wasn’t really a smile at all. “Eh, it wouldn’t be so bad. I wouldn’...
HOLLY BLACK

I love chicken fingers, I love French fries. I love desserts. I'm not just into dessert or just ...
HOLLY MADISON

You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you ...
HOLLY LISLE

The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.
HOLLY LISLE

I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.
HOLLY LISLE

Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one r...
HOLLY LISLE

Everyone is screwed up, the ones who try to say they aren’t, they’re the ones who are the worst ...
HOLLY HOOD

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.
HOLLY KETCHEL

We kind of saw abundance everywhere we looked.
HOLLY EDWARDS

With longevity comes, 'Nothing is going to kill me; I cannot irreparably damage my career.' ...
HOLLY HUNTER

One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced eac...
HOLLY BLACK

Don't talk about writing. Write. Don't show unfinished work to anyone. Don't show finish...
HOLLY LISLE

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it ...
LAUREN HOLLY

It felt really good. I felt like I was in a great rhythm tonight. It was good to see that. I've been...
HOLLY JOHNSON

To me, being creative is a very fragile thing. The environment in which one can create is a very par...
HOLLY HUNTER

Sometimes it's the lead, but there are not always leads out there, so then it's an interesti...
HOLLY HUNTER

Being somebody who's like a theater geek that I am, I can just go right back to Aeschylus and Eu...
HOLLY HUNTER

I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky...
HOLLY JOHNSON

It was at the beginning of all this tabloid frenzy. Our garbage was being gone through, and we were ...
LAUREN HOLLY

I don't want to be too strict, because I think kids can get rebellious, but I want to raise my d...
HOLLY MADISON

My plan is to have children and turn my back on work completely. When I start having babies, I'll ha...
HOLLY WILLOUGHBY

Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love....
HOLLY BLACK

I've always had to move between a couple of years of unemployment, where offers are not provocat...
HOLLY HUNTER

Even very ordinary people, upon closer examination, can often look extraordinary.
HOLLY HUNTER

They loved him because he was a prince and a faerie and magical and you were supposed to love prince...
HOLLY BLACK

Anyone who offers up their heart on a silver platter deserves what they get.
HOLLY BLACK

I wanted to be in love like in the storybooks and songs and ballads. Love that hits you like a light...
HOLLY BLACK

Down a path worn into the woods, past a stream and a hollowed-out log full of pill bugs and termites...
HOLLY BLACK

Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill monsters and feel quite prou...
HOLLY BLACK

There's a monster in our wood. She'll get you if you're not good. Drag you under leaves and sticks. ...
HOLLY BLACK

Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we can’t predict when that cat will wake, stretch,...
HOLLY ROBINSON

I don't get jealous of other girls, because I was... raised in a cloning lab to be the perfect w...
HOLLY MADISON

I guess I'm more of a direct person than an indirect one.
HOLLY HUNTER

The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.
HOLLY BLACK

I think that the audience feels a real connection with Zoe Kazan because she's so instantly lova...
HOLLY HUNTER

Man, I would have loved to have been fully cognisant of the power of Janis Joplin. I would have love...
HOLLY HUNTER

My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have ...
HOLLY NEAR

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for g...
HOLLY NEAR

Being a woman, in this world, ultimately makes you crazy.
HOLLY BOURNE

When he looks back at me, his eyes travel around my face the way fingers dart through the bottom of ...
HOLLY SCHINDLER

Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.
HOLLY BLACK

The last couple relationships I had were long distance. It's not like I can make much of an effo...
HOLLY MADISON

In the older folklore, faeries were frightening beings. In fact, it was such a bad idea to get their...
HOLLY BLACK

A stray dog, I might understand," she said. "But this? You are too softhearted."
No, Mabry," Ra...
HOLLY BLACK

When you don't know what you're searching for, you have to look absolutely everywhere.
HOLLY BLACK

I'm not a great Maureen Dowd fan, because I really find her poisonous, on the record.
HOLLY HUNTER

You don't have to just shop in the maternity section when you are pregnant - you can shop anywhe...
HOLLY MADISON

They think you can't feel anything, because they've forgotten how. You're very, very dangerous, I ge...
HOLLY BLACK

After becoming pregnant, I had to makeover my pantry just a little to make the proper adjustments to...
HOLLY MADISON

Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep...
HOLLY NEAR

What's great about cable is that the ceiling of expectation is lowered because fewer people have...
HOLLY HUNTER

I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.
HOLLY BLACK

If she could take my strength. He put his hand on his chest, feeling his heartbeat. If she could hav...
JAN HOLLY

Learn to say no to demands, requests, invitations, and activities that leave you with no time for yo...
HOLLY MOSIER

It's neat to know that someone in the audience knows what I'm going through backstage. I have a lot ...
HOLLY JONES

Maybe that's why he watched over all of us--because of the ones he couldn't protect, he took care of...
HOLLY CUPALA

I've had two romances since moving to Las Vegas. One was with somebody 12 years older than me, a...
HOLLY MADISON

My main motivation for staying in the spotlight at all is, I don't want to just be known for bei...
HOLLY MADISON

I was born and raised on a farm, where boys had chores and girls did not, i.e., drive tractors, bale...
HOLLY HUNTER

Crazy people are my people? Really? I think that's silly. That's another one of those pigeon...
HOLLY HUNTER

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.
HOLLY NEAR

I can't even explain how blessed I am and how fortunate that I have such a great team that belie...
HOLLY HOLM

We rode bikes through here, rode our sleds through here and used to sit in the pavilion for hours. O...
HOLLY FAULK

Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbi...
HOLLY BLACK

I've got such a disgusting, wide, smug grin on my face all the time that my friends just want to...
HOLLY VALANCE

As he bent closer, he realized they were words -- words his wife had carved into the cave ice with t...
HOLLY BLACK

Emmy adopted me for a grandmother, and she reminds me of things I did when I was younger, things I d...
HOLLY DIANICH

I had that L.A. mentality, I shredded the garbage and I had picked a house that was isolated,
LAUREN HOLLY

It started out, ... with ordering 150 T-shirts that said, 'It's Mark Harmon's birthday,' that we pas...
LAUREN HOLLY

They're always so much fun. And this is a great one because all the music is live.
LAUREN HOLLY

The last time [my character] saw him was six years ago. All of a sudden, I'm back, and I'm his boss,...
LAUREN HOLLY

He had big input into me coming on the show. I was wary of coming back into that hour [drama] world,...
LAUREN HOLLY

One of the things I was excited about, ... is that I get one of those black-and-white things.
LAUREN HOLLY

Samantha is such an unselfish player. That's what makes a good player great — making everyone arou...
HOLLY ISMAIL

To me, being creative is a very fragile thing, and somehow I've always felt the need to be very prot...
HOLLY HUNTER

I've never directed, but it must be humbling.
HOLLY HUNTER

This character, I required no research, I really just brought myself, without my southern accent to ...
HOLLY HUNTER

When my dad was alive, he would give them to the kids. People didn't have a lot of money, so they di...
HOLLY HUNTER

She's a very genuine person, very smart, a great athlete, a really good friend. She's always looking...
HOLLY CHRISTENSEN

I like trying [to get pregnant]. I'm not so sure about childbirth.
LAUREN HOLLY

It's a very rewarding job, but it's not sexy, not unless you think dealing with blood, germs and bod...
HOLLY ARNOULT

It does look like he's leaning more toward their status quo of raising rates at a measured pace, whi...
HOLLY LISS

Lust is not Love and regret is always the watchword.
HOLLY RANDELL

We're playing so hard to get a steal then we're not taking advantage. It's about executing on offens...
HOLLY TREAT

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, bec...
HOLLY LISLE

I moved on from the whole 'Playboy' thing five years ago and really never looked back. I'...
HOLLY MADISON

A naive, excitable teenaged reader is a beautiful thing. Someone who's never heard of Elizabeth Benn...
HOLLY LECRAW

Ok look man, you clearly are not hard up for money, you’re driving a range rover, so call whoever ...
HOLLY HOOD

I'm dying to get back in front of the cameras. I miss it like crazy.
HOLLY VALANCE

It wasn't about the music.
HOLLY VALANCE

Well the press and things like that are pretty hard core, but I don't pay too much attention to that...
HOLLY VALANCE

It wasn't about the music [on giving up her pop career]
HOLLY VALANCE

I don't want to be 35 years old and still popping out songs in miniskirts and la-la-la.
HOLLY VALANCE

I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin th...
HOLLY VALANCE

Without any good songs or being able to perform or entertain, you wouldn't survive. It's about havin...
HOLLY VALANCE

Whitney Davis did excellent on the floor. She added a half twist, so it bumped her score up.
HOLLY BRUMMETT

I would see these films starring Maria Felix, Lola Flores she was my very favorite. My uncle was the...
HOLLY WOODLAWN

No beating yourself up. That’s not allowed. Be patient with yourself. It took you years to form th...
HOLLY MOSIER

The moment she was cursed, I lost her. Once it wears off- soon- she will be embarrassed to remember ...
HOLLY BLACK

I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.
HOLLY BLACK

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.
HOLLY BLACK

There are so many traps these companies can fall into.
HOLLY TOWLE

Loving someone isn’t a hard task, it’s not a chore, you don’t wake up one day and decide to br...
HOLLY HOOD

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