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With families, no matter what kind you inherit, at some point you want to announce that you belong to it.

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When you're a child, you crave formal recognition; you crave ceremony, celebration, certification of proof.

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For my 11th birthday, I asked to be adopted.

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I loved 'Belzhar' by Meg Wolitzer.

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Jonathan Franzen seems like the grumpiest guy, and he doesn't seem to like much of anything, so I really don't care what he has to say.

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It's useless to criticize things that people love and something that speaks to them.

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What's great about teen fiction is that it's all mixed up - there's highbrow and lowbrow!

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When a place comes across vividly in a novel, it's often compared to a character. I can remember writing teachers who encouraged me to treat setting as if it were a character, to give it three dimensions, to make it come alive, jump off the page.

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In putting setting to work, I like to think about long shots and close-ups. The long shot is the overall view of the place in which the characters live - the island, the town, the wide sweep of place. Then we narrow in. The close-up, the tight focus, makes the place different from anywhere else.

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Setting shouldn't just consist of describing nature or a landscape, or of saying where something takes place. It is the world of specific people. It's not enough for it to feel vivid or credible; it should feel necessary.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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