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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble finding an audience.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Golden Rule will always be good advice!
- Musician
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- Nov 07, 2020
See, I'm not a very good musician.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew that part of the problem with sensitive issues is that, because they're uncomfortable to address, we have a hard time doing so honestly, if at all.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny: when I go to a school and speak, and when they hear the back story about me, they want to go read the book.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main character in the book is usually someone you're identifying with because the story is being told through this person's mind.
- Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Fifty Shades' opened the door and made it easier to write about any issue that's controversial. It has helped other authors talk honestly.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we know it's happening, and we're not having the discussion, we're contributing to the problem of making it seem like people can't open up.
- Beach
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know anything about bullying in Huntington Beach specifically, but I would assume it's very similar to other places.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I found is that no matter where in the country - poor communities, rich communities - everybody deals with very similar issues of bullying. It's pretty widespread.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's this stress that is relieved when you realize somebody understands, and that's only going to happen if you feel the person who's writing the book or the people in the TV show aren't holding back.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems like whenever a big newspaper or TV show talks about teen literature, they focus on dark books or vampire books. It's kind of this cliche. It seems like the only time adults pay attention is with that angle.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When me and my author friends who write about other difficult subject matter... when you hear from teens daily saying, 'Your book helped me or made me understand a friend better, what somebody else is going through,' you see the positive things.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
My friends and I did one of those 'Who's Hot and Who's Not' lists. Every school has those, and now they are online, which makes it even worse. It was one of those moments that I look back on a lot, and think that was horrible.
- Safe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Novels are a safe way to talk about things.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course I always like going to bookstores, but at stores, you're mostly meeting kids who are already into reading.
- Favorite Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really love visiting schools - in fact, that's my favorite part of being an author now - even though I still get stage fright! When I visit schools, I know I'm going to be talking to some kids who don't like to read.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every action we have is going to have repercussions in ways we could not anticipate.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in Las Vegas, and there was a exhibit of King Tut's tomb, and it was an audio tour. At the very end of that, I just thought it would be a really cool structure for a novel, but I just didn't have a story to go along with it.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are things that aren't supposed to be comfortable to read, because those situations shouldn't be comfortable to discuss, but they still need to be discussed.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had written a book that dealt with really serious issues. Was anybody going to want to read a Christmas love story from me?
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite aspect of being an author has always been visiting different communities and meeting my readers face to face.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're being bullied, it can feel like no one cares, and I'm so excited to tell the teens at the schools I visit that I wouldn't be there if their school didn't care.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I decided I wanted to become an author, I never thought something I wrote would be used as a way to start conversations that are otherwise difficult to begin.
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- Nov 07, 2020