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Sometimes readers want some escapist fun, to get lost in the story. But light-hearted romantic stories can and should star all kinds of girls.

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It's fairly common to get something optioned but really rare to actually see it become a movie.

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I don't think kids of color should have to search far and wide to find books that reflect their experience.

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I think that, oftentimes, what people say is, 'We need an actress who'll be able to greenlight a movie,' and my counterargument to that is always that, when it comes to a teen movie, you have very few people who can greenlight a movie.

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Sometimes you don't know what a book is about until you are finished with it and you're talking about it.

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There are so many people that want to tell stories. I think that the issue is how hard it is to get your foot in the door to tell your stories.

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I came of age during the Golden Age of rom coms - like the '90s and 2000s - there were so many.

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I just think of myself as a writer. Yes, I'm a woman. And I'm a writer. The main challenge is that I like to write stories about young women, and society doesn't place much of a premium on young women's stories. And I think that's why I gravitate towards it. I really honor that, and I treasure that time, and they should be given that respect.

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There is real power in seeing yourself as a hero. Because then you believe that you can do anything.

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I think that sometimes we put undue pressure on stories featuring people of color, and I hope we get to a point where it's not such a rarity to see a person of color be the hero of a story, so that it can just be a story and not have to carry so much weight.

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Biography

Nationality: South Korean

Type: Author

Born: September 3rd, 1980

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