My mother had been blind as a child. And so, blindness was something that has long fascinated me, but also it’s something I find really, really scary. Marie Rutkoski Read Quote
There are certainly stories that I used to tell myself as a kid that did influence ‘The Cabinet of Wonders.’ There’s a scene in the novel where there’s a flood that bursts through the castle, and one of my favorite things to do when I was a kid at school was imagine what school would be like if there was a sudden flood. Marie Rutkoski Read Quote
When you are ‘world building,’ people will oftentimes judge how well you built your world. They want to know: Is the culture believable? Does it feel like it has a history? I try very hard to pay attention to details. Marie Rutkoski Read Quote
Of course having a baby derails the writing process for some time. And I will be the first to say that I have essentially no social life, because there’s just nothing left after being a mom, professor, and writer. I used to be big into rock climbing. No more. A lot falls by the wayside. Marie Rutkoski Read Quote
In some ways, getting published in children’s literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature. It’s less hinged on who you might know. Marie Rutkoski Read Quote
Whether we think of Disney’s blonde beauty and her pumpkin carriage or Marissa Meyer’s recent recasting of ‘Cinderella’ as a cyborg in the young adult novel ‘Cinder,’ we know that there are countless modern retellings of the tale. Marie Rutkoski Read Quote
