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Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' sparked my interest in writing.

~Ally Carter

Topics: Authors Bug Caught Day Exact Interest Like Many Outsiders Reading Remember Teenage Teenage Years Writing Year Years I Remember

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Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and stories and first paragraphs of novels that never got written.

~Ally Carter

Topics: Aspiring Boxes Filled First Got Houses Like Many Never Notebooks Novels Paragraphs Parents Poems Still Stories Things Who Writers Written

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At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers can identify with them.

~Ally Carter

Topics: Characters Core Dreams Fears Hopefully Hopes Identify Insecurities People Readers Real Real People Them Try Which Who Why Write

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Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma.

~Ally Carter

Topics: Girl Growing Growing Up Northeast Oklahoma Packs Read Small Small Town Teen Teenage Teenage Girls Today Town True Up

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It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been written by dead Europeans. But every time I saw 'The Outsiders', I knew better. It was the first time I'd realized that real people write books.

~Ally Carter

Topics: Austen Been Believe Better Between Books Dead Dickens Easy Europeans Every Every Time First First Time Great Great Stories Had Knew Lessons Outsiders People Real Real People Realized Saw Shakespeare Stories Time Write Written

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 1st, 1974

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