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We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring themes are a recurring theme. We never quite conquer a pet vice or a relationship pattern or a communication habit. We're haunted by our particular demons.

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Family or love or romance, whatever it is, is not restricted to perfect people. If it were, it wouldn't exist. All of that comes out in my work in some way.

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I don't want to pretend like I'm some intellectual person who understands Flannery O'Connor.

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It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I didn't start thinking about writing as a serious pursuit, a career I could have, until after college.

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I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice.

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I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.

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There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.

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I have no desire to go back to San Francisco.

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I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.

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I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 3rd, 1970

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