Amanda Hocking

"I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot."

"My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story that's really elaborate about werewolves and wolves."

"I was always depressed growing up. There wasn't a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I wrote a lot, and I read a lot and that was how I dealt with it."