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Often we don't even know what we think ourselves about people in our lives.

~Chelsea Cain

Topics: About Even Know Lives Often Our Our Lives Ourselves People Think

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I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.

~Chelsea Cain

Topics: Amateur Bit Books Considered Detective Drew Kid Lot Myself Nancy Read

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You know what I hate? I hate people who give me plants. The whole giving someone plants - it's like giving someone a pet. I'm giving you responsibility, I'm giving you a thing that you now have to take care of for, like, a year until it dies, and then I'm giving you sadness and guilt.

~Chelsea Cain

Topics: Care Dies Give Give Me Giving Guilt Hate Know Like Me Now People Pet Plants Responsibility Sadness Someone Take Take Care Then Thing Until Who Whole Year You

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People read stuff over your shoulder when you're in public, and when you write the kind of stuff I do, and people read it over your shoulder, it makes you a little self-conscious.

~Chelsea Cain

Topics: Kind Little Makes Over People Public Read Self-Conscious Shoulder Stuff Write You Your

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Somehow, having an office that I had to go to made me want to work from home, which is easier to do if you don't have a boss waiting for you at the office, even a very blue office.

~Chelsea Cain

Topics: Blue Boss Easier Even Go Had Having Home Made Me Office Somehow Very Waiting Want Which Work You

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I think of it as the lasagna approach to writing because I'm always adding layers. I'll sometimes do it layer by layer, with dialogue, attribution, action, objects in the scene, setting... It can be sometimes that delineated.

~Chelsea Cain

Topics: Action Adding Always Approach Because Dialogue Layer Layers Objects Scene Setting Sometimes Think Writing I Think

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Every year, I give my dad an advance copy of my latest book. He reads it over the next several nights and says something incredibly supportive. Then he clears his throat nervously and changes the subject.

~Chelsea Cain

Topics: Advance Book Changes Clears Copy Dad Every Give He His Incredibly Latest Next Nights Over Reads Says Several Something Subject Supportive Then Throat Year

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Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.

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Topics: Fiction Just Memory Ourselves Piece Tell Truth

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As a seven-year-old, I remember when Etan Patz disappeared and was immortalized as the first missing-child face on a milk carton.

~Chelsea Cain

Topics: Disappeared Face First Milk Remember Remember When I Remember

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I was pregnant with my daughter when I started writing my first thriller, so I guess you could blame hormones.

~Chelsea Cain

Topics: Blame Could Daughter First Guess Hormones Pregnant Started Thriller Writing You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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