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- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice.
- Featured
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no desire to go back to San Francisco.
- More
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I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn't room for what I wanted to write.
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One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be the impression you get from reading his books.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always in a place that is sincere but conflicted about different things that come with being a Christian and being an active, churchgoing Christian.
- Love
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Family or love or romance, whatever it is, is not restricted to perfect people. If it were, it wouldn't exist. All of that comes out in my work in some way.
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My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.
- Emotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.
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My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign publishers and am so disconnected from that process that it seems almost imaginary. With 'How to Save a Life', I worked closely with Usborne editors and have been involved in the publicity.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it feels like it's going badly or that I'm lost, I know I'll eventually find my way because I've been through it before. But writing itself is still hard.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm so focused on trying to craft the story that I'm in my own little world with it and that process. The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters, I hope.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a young reader tells you that they'd never finished a book outside of school until they read yours, or that they really needed to hear something that one of your characters says or thinks... that's just rewarding and humbling.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents met in music school, and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If we'd had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to pretend like I'm some intellectual person who understands Flannery O'Connor.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my characters are questioning things, it's not me leading up to an answer; it's me asking those same questions and letting the characters' lives unfold and seeing where it takes them.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always felt that church is where I'm going to find my community and people to live my life with.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making lists of favorite things is, for me, a task ridden with anxiety. What if I've accidentally excluded something I love? What if I discover something new tomorrow that I love even more?
- DNA
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to describe recurring themes as being part of a writer's DNA - something so deeply embedded in us that even we don't notice it until we've written three or four books.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is it good, bad, or neutral to recognize thematic patterns in your own work? When it comes to recurring themes, I'm of the mind that knowledge is probably not power, at least in terms of the work.
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