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I love seeing a story evolve over several books and watching characters develop.
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Evolve
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I'm the sort of person who would be perfectly happy spending an entire day in a rare books room.
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Rare
Perfectly
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My mother had been blind as a child. And so, blindness was something that has long fascinated me, but also it's something I find really, really scary.
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Blind
Blindness
Fascinated
Scary
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In some ways, getting published in children's literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature. It's less hinged on who you might know.
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Published
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When you are 'world building,' people will oftentimes judge how well you built your world. They want to know: Is the culture believable? Does it feel like it has a history? I try very hard to pay attention to details.
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Believable
Details
Pay Attention
History World Culture
Judge
History Culture World
Oftentimes
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Whether we think of Disney's blonde beauty and her pumpkin carriage or Marissa Meyer's recent recasting of 'Cinderella' as a cyborg in the young adult novel 'Cinder,' we know that there are countless modern retellings of the tale.
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Pumpkin
Young Adult
Carriage
Countless
Disney
Recent
Tale
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For many, many years, I thought that I wasn't good enough or that I would never be able to create something that could touch other people the way books have touched me. There's nothing better than having a lifelong dream come true.
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Touched
Good Me Better
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Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the best metaphors are clear and sparkling. But I will throw out unread the book that promises me no metaphors inside.
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Clear
Insane
Metaphor
Sparkling
Inside
Best Beautiful Me
Cut
Ditch
Perfectly
Promises
Prune
Throw
Unread
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I was so in love with books from as early as I remember that it seemed a natural step to want to create them. And so I just wanted to be a writer from a very young age. And I think that the lies were just a natural side effect of me wanting to tell stories and write them down.
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Young Age
Love Age Me
Writer
Effect
Lies
Seemed
Step
Wanting
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Throughout my college years, I'd watch my sister squeal every Christmas as she unwrapped another 'Buffy' DVD set. I didn't know much about the series, but I was filled with that obnoxious self-importance that comes from having decided to be an Academic Who Reads Serious Things.
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Christmas
Sister
Academic
College
Decided
Filled
Obnoxious
Self-importance
Series
Buffy
Reads
Throughout
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Of course having a baby derails the writing process for some time. And I will be the first to say that I have essentially no social life, because there's just nothing left after being a mom, professor, and writer. I used to be big into rock climbing. No more. A lot falls by the wayside.
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Having A Baby
Social Life
Writing Process
Life Time Mom
Be The First
Professor
Wayside
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Any consideration of the story we call 'Cinderella' for simplicity's sake must acknowledge that 'Cinderella' has had a dizzying array of personae over hundreds of years, in several cultures. There is no one authoritative tale of 'Cinderella,' only a hall of mirrors with a different face in each reflection.
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Acknowledge
Consideration
Mirrors
Reflection
Sake
Simplicity
Array
Authoritative
Cinderella
Cultures
Hall
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Years
Several
Tale
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I guess one of the most magnificent things a novel can do is to change your perspective on the world, and to give it some sense of wonder, and that's what I find so exciting in writing fantasy, especially fantasy for children. Because already, I think children have a very special and unusual way of seeing the world.
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Fantasy
Magnificent
Perspective
Unusual
Change World Your
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There are certainly stories that I used to tell myself as a kid that did influence 'The Cabinet of Wonders.' There's a scene in the novel where there's a flood that bursts through the castle, and one of my favorite things to do when I was a kid at school was imagine what school would be like if there was a sudden flood.
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Flood
Bursts
Cabinet
Castle
Favorite Things
Wonders
Sudden
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches.
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Belief
Burned
Discovery
Fascinated
Magic
Renaissance
Time Great Always
Time Great Me
Witches
Period
Galileo
Hundreds
Invented
One Of The Things
Scientific
Stake
Superstition
Telescope
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