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No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.

~Catherynne M. Valente

Topics: Actually Along Fairy Fairy Tale Help Matter Somewhere Tale Way Write You

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Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on her shield.

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Fantasy is my heart and love. And I just want to play in that garden for the rest of my life.

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Topics: Fantasy Garden Heart Just Life Love My Life Play Rest Want

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Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears and are thus inherently incredibly interesting and powerful.

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Topics: Almost Always Culture Fears Incredibly Inherently Interesting Monsters Out Powerful Thus Way Working

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Every writing teacher I ever had except for one told me I was an awful writer, had no idea what I was doing, and should stop immediately. It only took the one to tell me something different to light a fire under me.

~Catherynne M. Valente

Topics: Awful Different Doing Ever Every Except Fire Had Idea Immediately Light Me No Idea Only Should Something Stop Teacher Tell Took Writer Writing

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I try to hurt myself, to sprain something, writing every novel and story, because I'm stretching for something new and difficult that I haven't done before.

~Catherynne M. Valente

Topics: Because Before Difficult Done Every Hurt Myself New Novel Something Something New Story Stretching Try Writing

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Everyone has a right to cry uncle on a genre every once in awhile. I've done it myself. Sometimes you just can't bear another gear or pair of wings or vampire teeth. You go on a fast, and sometimes you come back, and sometimes you don't.

~Catherynne M. Valente

Topics: Another Awhile Back Bear Come Cry Done Every Everyone Fast Gear Genre Go Just Myself Once Pair Right Sometimes Teeth Uncle Vampire Wings You

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Just about every science whiz can tell you how he or she took apart the TV or the radio when they were kids just to see how it worked. To see what the world was made of. Well, when I was a kid, I took apart fairy tales to see how they worked. To see what the world was made of.

~Catherynne M. Valente

Topics: About Apart Every Fairy Fairy Tales He He Or She How Just Kid Kids Made Radio Science See She Tales Tell Took Tv Well Were Worked World You

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You can't have whatever you want. But to a child who must ask permission for every single thing, adulthood looks like a constant parade of every desire's satisfaction. It is a heady and terrifying place. It is the Otherworld. It is Fairyland. In fantasy, we make this literal.

~Catherynne M. Valente

Topics: Adulthood Ask Child Constant Desire Every Every Single Thing Fantasy Heady Like Literal Looks Make Must Parade Permission Place Satisfaction Single Single Thing Terrifying Thing Want Whatever Who You

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It seems like every few years a big name author will holler something about how evil, heinous, and morally wrong fan fiction and fan fiction writers are, and then the Internet gets all upset and shocked, and then the author is shocked that people could get so upset.

~Catherynne M. Valente

Topics: About Author Big Could Every Evil Fan Few Fiction Fiction Writers Get Gets How Internet Like Morally Morally Wrong Name People Seems Shocked Something Then Upset Will Writers Wrong Years

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: May 5th, 1979

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