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I'm a huge movie nerd.
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Huge
Nerd
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I'm a huge 'Game of Thrones' fan.
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Game Of Thrones
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People dreamed. People left. And they all came back.
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Left
People
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A sibling represents a person's past, present, and future.
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Past
Persons
Sibling
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I'm completely obsessed with Andrew Smith's 'Winger.' A great, hilarious, and moving story.
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Hilarious
Andrew
Smith
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My family and friends have been monumentally supportive from well before I was a published author.
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Family And Friends
Supportive
Author
Published
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I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good.
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Enough
Long
Possibility
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I often found myself in situations where I had, without thinking, said too much to too many with too little caution.
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Littles
Thinking
Too Much
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In the middle of my fourth year teaching is when I got my book contract - in 2010. I knew the book would come out in May 2011.
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Fourth
Contract
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I love meeting readers and booksellers and am beyond overwhelmed and gratified at the reception. Each day feels like an adventure.
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Adventure
Each Day
Overwhelmed
Reception
Gratified
Meeting
Readers
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Dealing with chronic anxiety has taught me to better understand the nuances of mental illness and the very individual nature of it.
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Illness
Mental Illness
Chronic
Dealing
Nuances
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I thought, 'What if I were 17, and it was my small town of Springhill, Louisiana? How would I feel if people started flooding in to see some bird?'
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Bird
Flooding
Louisiana
Small Town
What If
People Feel See
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I thought maybe a day was coming when I'd stop constantly worrying about how to live. Maybe at some point I'd just start living, no questions asked.
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Questions Asked
Worry
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I've been an assistant to a folklorist and a teacher. There may or may not have been some sandwich-making at a certain sub chain in my past as well.
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Assistant
Chain
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I'm beyond thrilled to be working with Faber, whose literary history is second to none. And I'm even more excited to bring my books to a wider audience in the U.K.
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History
Audience
Books
Beyond
Bring
Working
Literary
None
Second
Thrilled
Whose
Wider Audience
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I've found that a combination of therapy and medication, along with lifestyle choices like eating better and exercising regularly, helps me cope well with my anxiety.
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Choices
Combination
Eating
Lifestyle
Medication
Therapy
Cope
Exercising
Helps
Regularly
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If I'm really under pressure to get work done, I can adapt to most situations, but I prefer to be at home, in a comfortable chair, with as few distractions as possible.
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Work Home Done
Adapt
Chair
Distractions
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I jotted down Oslo After Death. This would be a great title for a book, I thought. That is what I do sometimes. I jot down titles for books that I one day intend to write.
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Book
One Day
Writing
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I regret waiting until my mid-twenties to really start seeing the world. I think I should have taken more risks when I was younger and worried less about being ready to grow up.
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Ready
Regret
Waiting
Worried
Younger
Grow Up
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Call it egotistical or narcissist, but I think that's what we all look for in books - the right stories that help us make sense of the world that we, on a very personal level, live in every day.
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Egotistical
Narcissist
World Look Day
Look World Day
Personal Level
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I do come from a very close family. And I'm fascinated, in particular, with family relationships and the relationships that we all form with friends who feel as close, if not closer, than family.
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Fascinated
Form
Particular
Close
Relationships
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I did some research on cryonics and cryogenics, but I kept it to a minimum because I didn't want the science part of the novel to overshadow the fiction. Being medically accurate wasn't my main goal.
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Accurate
Fiction
Minimum
Novel
Research
Main
Medically
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No matter how often you see or talk to someone, no matter how much you know them or don't know them, you always fill up some space in their lives that can't ever be replaced the right way again once you leave it.
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Space
Matter
Way
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You ever feel like you know someone so much that they can breathe for you? Like when their chest and your chest rise and fall, they do it together because they have to? That's how it felt. That's how it always felt.
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Love
Fall
Together
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Not only had my brother disappeared, but--and bear with me here--a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared.
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Brother
Memories
Perspective
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Some people say dying alone is a fate worse than death itself. Well, they should try being alone during the living part sometimes. There's no quicker way to make you wonder why the hell you ever thought you'd want to return.
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Dying Alone
Fate
People
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I know what it's like to be from an incredibly small town and the oppressiveness of it and the desire to get out. But I didn't realize that readers in Seattle, New York, and San Francisco might not get that so instinctively.
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New York
Desire
San Francisco
Seattle
Small Town
Francisco
Incredibly
Instinctively
Readers
Realize
San
York
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I grew up in a little town with about 6,000 or 7,000 people. I always knew from 11 or 12 years old that I wanted to be a writer, and I always wanted to write about growing up in a place like that that's small and you don't fit into.
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Little Town
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The thing to know about my brother was that even though he was fifteen, he looked to be about the same age as me. Only, I'm not sure if that was because he looked older or I looked younger. I like to think it was a healthy mixture of both.
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Brother
Healthy
Thinking
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I was thrilled when this year's National Book Award for Young People's Literature went to Neal Schusterman's 'Challenger Deep.' This brilliant book takes you into the mind of a mentally ill teenager and deserves all the accolades it's received.
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Accolades
Book
Brilliant
Ill
Literature
Young
Mentally
Award
Challenger
National
Received
Takes
Thrilled
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I was a terrible reader as a kid. I mean terrible. Super slow and very unfocused. It took me forever to read a book, and I remember being well into high school and still needing my mom to sit down and read aloud to me so I could pass my English tests and such.
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Tests
Mom Me Remember
Aloud
Needing
Slow
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Approaching my second novel was, admittedly, a bit of a struggle. But having an amazing team at Atheneum Books, especially my very patient, brilliant editor Namrata Tripathi, took a stressful situation and turned it into a really great learning experience for me.
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Brilliant
Learning Experience
Novel
Patient
Situation
Stressful
Struggle
Experience Learning Great
Admittedly
Approaching
Editor
Great Learning
Great Learning Experience
Second
Turned
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Maybe we all just exist, all versions of us exist at times, and we have to figure out a way to get to each of them, to find each one and tell that version that it's okay, that it's all justthe way it works, a concept too powerful to ignore but too complicated to explain.
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Complicated
Powerful
Way
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I don't think anyone, no matter what, can find perfect happiness until they understand exactly who they are and how every little thing they do can affect the world around them. I think perfect happiness would be a world where everyone is constantly striving to understand everyone else.
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Affect
Everyone Else
Little Thing
Striving
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I remember, for the first time, sitting down and consuming books in a matter of hours. This was such a new experience for me because reading, up until that point, had been such a struggle and source of stress. I think I just needed to find the right kind of stories with which I could identify.
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Consuming
First Time
Needed
Sitting
Struggle
Time Experience Me
Identify
Right Kind
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I wanted the world to sit back, listen up, and let me explain to it that when someone is sad and hopeless, the last thing they need to feel is that they are the only ones in the world with that feeling. So, if you feel sorry for someone, don't pretend to be happy. Don't pretend to care only about their problems.
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Feelings
Needs
Sorry
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Your mind has a way of not letting you forget things you wish you could. Especially with people. Like, you'll always try your best to forget things that people say to you or about you, but you always remember. And you'll try to forget things you've seen that no one should see, but you just can't do it. And when you try to forget someone's face, you can't get it out of your head.
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Mind
People
Wish
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Spouses have each other, and even when one eventually dies, they have memories of a time when they existed before that other person and can more readily imagine a life without them. Likewise, parents may have other children to be concerned with--a future to protect for them. To lose a sibling is to lose the one person with whom one shares a lifelong bond that is meant to continue on into the future.
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Children
Memories
Sibling
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