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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

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Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?

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What happens to each of my female heroes, certainly, is they find something bigger than themselves that they are honored to serve. It's not giving up your family.

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If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.

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One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.

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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

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With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.

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You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.

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The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.

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Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 13th, 1953

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