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" As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you. "
Book
Live
Hard
" As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages. "
Write
Writing
Like
" A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground. "
Growing
Beautiful
You
" Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there. "
How
Move On
Beginning
" Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them. "
Baby
Lose
You
" I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child. "
Child
Reading
Love
" I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people. "
Like
People
Person
" I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes. "
Mistakes
Decisions
Beautiful
" It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones. "
Much
Expectations
Big
" My household is, in a nice way, very busy. "
Very
Household
Busy
" The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated. "
Teen
Blurred
Become
" To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world. "
Story
Yourself
Open
" When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books. "
Remember
Books
Credit
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