Quotes by Rebecca Serle - Page 2

My first book, 'When You Were Mine,' got optioned for film and went into preproduction as 'Rosaline.' That was the classic model: Hollywood calls, options book, and that's it. You sign on the dotted line.
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Classic
Calls
Options
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Let me get something straight: I have no problem with ghostwriting as a thing unto itself. What bothers me is the way it's shrouded in secrecy, ignored to the point of straight-up lying. Why not be honest?
Rebecca Serle /
Ignored
Lying
No Problem
Secrecy
Why Not
Bothers
Unto
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I'm a total fangirl for Nancy Meyers. I love all her movies - 'Something's Gotta Give,' 'Father of the Bride,' 'The Parent Trap,' etc. I also love Woody Allen - 'Annie Hall' and 'Manhattan' are my favorites.
Rebecca Serle /
Annie
Etc
Manhattan
Nancy
Parent
Woody
Allen
Bride
Favorites
Gotta
Hall
Trap
Woody Allen
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I am a young adult author, and so are quite a few of my friends. We all write books for the same demographic; many of us are even published by the same publishing house. Two of us, in fact, share the same editor.
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Publishing House
Young Adult
Author
Demographic
Editor
Published
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I don't really think of past experiences as 'mistakes' - I think everything brings us where we need to go and teaches us what we need to learn. I'm grateful for all my wobbles because I wouldn't be here without them.
Rebecca Serle /
Teaches
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Picture books have terrible PR amongst the children of this country. Ask any librarian: after a certain age, children just aren't interested in the picture book section anymore. It's filled with moms, strollers, and unbalanced toddlers.
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Filled
Unbalanced
Amongst
Certain Age
Moms
Picture Book
Section
Toddlers
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I used the second year of my MFA program to write a young adult novel and began pursuing picture books as well. I loved the economy of this art form, choosing, with pristine attention, the exact right words to tell the exact right story.
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Picture Books
Pristine
Right Words
Young Adult
Art Form
Choosing
Exact
Pursuing
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American fantasy is not a genre we think about too often. Sure, we are familiar with the worlds of English boarding school houses and castles and fairies, but true American fantasy, fantasy that is built on the land of this country, is hard to come by.
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Castles
Country
Fantasy
Genre
School
Sure
True
Boarding
Boarding School
Often
Fairies
Houses
Worlds
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Some of these love stories can be destructive as examples of what it means to really love. To think that someone is your one and only, that you're fated to be with this person, is a really powerful, sexy fantasy - but it is a fantasy, at least in part.
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Destructive
Fantasy
Powerful
Examples
Fated
Love Stories
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I have often said that I think children's books are like poetry. Finding the exact right words to tell a story is something all writers, regardless of genre, are challenged to do, but it is in children's that the art of selection really becomes an art.
Rebecca Serle /
Right Words
Selection
All Writers
Challenged
Exact
Regardless
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When it comes to vampires, Daniel Gillies's Elijah is the cream of the crop. Since leaving 'The Vampire Diaries' to headline 'The Originals,' we've seen the brother of Klaus grow from the altruistic, steadfast, suit-wearing stud into a complicated, nuanced lead.
Rebecca Serle /
Cream
Diaries
Originals
Steadfast
Vampire
Altruistic
Crop
Daniel
Headline
Stud
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'Goodnight Moon' is a staple of any nursery bookshelf. So, too, are 'Harold and the Purple Crayon' and 'Madeline.' These books are just as much a part of mainstream reading culture as 'The Catcher in the Rye,' and they are passed down from generation to generation.
Rebecca Serle /
Goodnight
Moon
Nursery
Purple
Bookshelf
Catcher
Catcher In The Rye
Harold
Just As Much
Rye
Staple
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Everyone has a story to tell, and in a perfect world, everyone would get the opportunity to tell it. Some of us have the stories, some of us have the words, and some of us have both. Let's honor the portions we bring to the table and give credit where credit is due.
Rebecca Serle /
Opportunity
Credit
Honor
Perfect
Portions
Stories
Words
Everyone
Bring
Due
Give
Perfect World
Table
Tell
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Children's authors have to pick words that reflect the spirit of a book and convey its message but also words that light children up, that children will recognize. Words that inspire and comfort. Words that challenge yet don't patronize. Words that, well, mean something to them.
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Comfort
Inspire
Authors
Convey
Patronize
Reflect
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You don't write a book. You write a sentence and then a paragraph and then a page and then a chapter. Looking at writing 400 plus pages or seventy thousand odd words is incredibly daunting, but if you just focus on the immediate picture - say, 500 words - it's not so overwhelming.
Rebecca Serle /
Odd
Overwhelming
Pages
Plus
Thousand
Chapter
Daunting
Immediate
Sentence
Seventy
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I first moved to New York, like many twenty-somethings before me, to be a grown up. I was attending an MFA program in the city, starting work at a nonfiction imprint at a reputable publishing house, and excited about being on track to becoming the writer I had always wanted to be.
Rebecca Serle /
Attending
Nonfiction
Publishing
Publishing House
Work Always Me
Imprint
Reputable
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'Ready Player One' has it all - nostalgia, trivia, adventure, romance, heart, and, dare I say it, some very fascinating social commentary. The novel follows Wade Watts through the virtual reality world, the OASIS, and on a quest to uncover and unlock the secrets buried deep inside.
Rebecca Serle /
Adventure
Buried
Commentary
Dare
Deep Inside
Fascinating
Nostalgia
Oasis
Player
Ready
Reality
Romance
Trivia
Virtual Reality
Wade
Inside
Deep
Follows
Quest
Secrets
Uncover
Unlock
Virtual
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Part of the job of a children's author is to write books that will be remembered, definitely, but if I might go out on a limb, I will say that the other part, the more important part, is to build books that will help children fall in love with reading. That, to me, is the real job.
Rebecca Serle /
Remembered
Love Me Important
Love Me Children
Author
Important Part
Limb
Real Job
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One of the things that defines YA is a really strong narrative. Adults love YA because, at the end of the day, they're good stories and page-turners. The other element is emotion. The teen years are a very emotional and intense time, and I think it's a time we that we can all relate to and remember.
Rebecca Serle /
Teen
Intense
Narrative
Love Time Good
Defines
Element
Good Stories
Teen Years
Ya
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I remember what it feels like to be fourteen or sixteen, to have the world folded out in front of you, and to have a million choices ahead. I also remember what it feels like to be so open and impressionable and to want something so badly it's impossible to see that maybe it isn't the best thing for you.
Rebecca Serle /
Fourteen
Sixteen
Badly
Folded
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Writers often like to talk about how intuitive the writing process is, but in truth, building a book is a remarkably unintuitive task. Or, to put it more accurately, you need a lot more than intuition. You need plot and characters. You need a setting. You need a theme that is relevant and supported by your text.
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Intuition
Plot
Relevant
Setting
Writing Process
Accurately
Writers
Task
Text
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The idea that success is limited is an easy one to believe. We buy into it, and often without even thinking. There aren't enough resources. Something for you means less for me. I understand it, too. It's the give and take of the human experience. If you have the apple, I can't then hold it at the same time... or can I?
Rebecca Serle /
Give And Take
Human Experience
Resources
Apple
Buy
Hold
Same Time
Success Is
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In her book 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead,' Sheryl Sandberg talks about the mentor/mentee relationship - and how it needs to be organic. She goes on to explain how important it is for men and women to step into mentoring roles. I would argue that not only is it important - but it's important far earlier than we think.
Rebecca Serle /
Men And Women
Mentoring
Work Men Women
Earlier
Lean
Organic
Talks
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I used to think that if I was ever so lucky as to get a book deal that I would write all the time. All day, every day. I'd write three books a year. The truth, though, is that writing all day isn't really feasible. I could do it, but I'd be folding in on a lot of other aspects of my life, things I care about. And I wouldn't be happy.
Rebecca Serle /
Folding
Life Time Truth
All Day
Aspects
Be Happy
Feasible
Life Truth Time
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