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Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite.
Alex Flinn
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Alex Flinn
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 23
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New York City
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Alexandra Flinn
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Anyone else feel like that? Like your life's a big act. Like you're trying to be a man when you're just a scared kid, trying to keep under control when you really want to scream, cry, or maybe hit someone. Ever feel like you're breathing underwater and you have to stop because you're gulping in too much fluid.
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True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no for an answer. He would search the world and certainly look again and again in every cottage in Euphrasia until he finds you.
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I am a princess. I do not follow fashions--I make them.
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A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love-true love-is something else.
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It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.
Alex Flinn
Maybe we judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.
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Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides is a useful talent.
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This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City.
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I was painfully shy, and I had tremendous difficulty making friends. So, lacking friends, I watched other people. Watching is something all writers must do, and it was in junior high that I learned to do it.
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I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.
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What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.
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Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.
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I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.
Alex Flinn
People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don't even notice anymore.
Alex Flinn
I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun.
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Good to know: Doctors can't cure you of being a beast.
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Maybe you actually do need to face obstacles with someone to know that they're the one you'd sacrifice for.
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In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is 'as good as she is beautiful.' I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel bad for them.
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You shouldn't miss someone who don't miss you, right?
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Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that.
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