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- Nov 07, 2020
I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism.
- Fairy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fairy tales and folk tales are part of the DNA of all stories and great fun to write.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had some great English teachers. One of my favorite - her name was Linda Janoff - was wonderful and so irreverent and so smart and encouraging.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
Los Angeles, which is where I live, happens to be a great place for junk. People have a lot of it, and they sell it and trade it: At these big swap meets, many, many hundreds of dealers of junk will descend upon a football field on a Saturday and sell all their stuff.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Woodcuts have a really timeless sort of feel, and they feel like a book that's a couple hundred years old.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You'll find a lot of rich detail in people's personal histories - diaries and journals and things of the era.
- Bucks
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was at a big swap meet that I discovered you could buy other people's old discarded family photos and vacation pictures for pretty cheap - a quarter, 50 cents, five bucks for a really nice one.
- Fell
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fell in love with London and one particular era in London.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to ever write a book that seems like it's pandering to younger people or talking down to people who I know are very smart.
- I Write
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write the books to amuse myself.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my background in film taught me that a great book adaptation is not always slavishly faithful to the source material.
- Nov 07, 2020
I try to imagine the scenes as I'm writing them as if I were watching them play like a film.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to film school, trained as a director, have made a lot of movies, and taken a lot of photographs, so I tend to envision things spatially. As I'm working, I need to have a map of the space. I need to know what's happening in all corners simultaneously.
- Harness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just the textures of things are really important to me as I'm writing; I think atmospherics and visuals can have such emotional impact if you can harness the thematic thread between how scenes look and how your characters feel. I like to tug on that thread.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
The end of 'Hollow City' left the peculiar children in a very precarious spot, and that's just where 'Library of Souls' begins.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think 'Hollow City' only took a year and a half to write... but it felt like two and a half!
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was painful, but I really wanted to get 'Hollow City' right, and I'm glad I put in the time because I'm really proud of it.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Library of Souls' is longer than 'Hollow City' by a considerable margin, but this time I was on the right track from the beginning, so I never had to start over. It took about 15 months, all told.
- Disability
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to create characters who could do fantastic things but who weren't exactly superheros - characters who exist on sort of a spectrum from super-ability to disability.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creepy is better than just plain scary because you can't look away from creepy - you want to know the truth!
- Nov 07, 2020
I loved the 'Chronicles of Narnia.'
- Choose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ghost stories and Sherlock Holmes mysteries were great. And I had a major soft spot for those 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in the same class of 100 kids from grade 6 through 12, many of whom I still call friends.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
My happy place is 40 feet out in the Gulf of Mexico, sitting on a sandbar in 80-degree water, watching clouds crawl by. Absolute heaven.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some days, I would find what seemed like entire family trees, torn from once-treasured albums and dumped in disorganized bins, selling 10 for a dollar. I wondered how people could give up pictures of their great-grandparents for complete strangers to paw through - or why complete strangers would want them.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pine View was a great school for me - it made it safe to be a nerd. It was okay to really care about doing your homework and doing well in school.
- Fathom
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- Nov 07, 2020