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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.
Alex Flinn
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Alex Flinn
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 23
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New York City
New York
Alexandra Flinn
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I love you, I thought. But I didn't say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face. She was far too kind for that. My fear was a greater one - that she won't say it back.
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Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
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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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Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.
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Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.
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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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I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.
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Seem like a lot of people wear shoes they can't walk in.
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Everyone can use a little beauty.
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Maybe we judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.
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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.
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What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.
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That's what true love should be like-the person should be part of your soul and you should know what they're feeling all the time.
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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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You shouldn't miss someone who don't miss you, right?
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Good to know: Doctors can't cure you of being a beast.
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I am a princess. I do not follow fashions--I make them.
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A shoe that fits one person pinches another.
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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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