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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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Alex Flinn
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 23
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Alexandra Flinn
Probably
Least
Use
Experience
Writing
Something
Someday
Fun

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Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.
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People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don't even notice anymore.
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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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I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.
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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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I am a princess. I do not follow fashions--I make them.
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I enjoy people who aren't afraid to say what they mean. It makes life so much easier!
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Seem like a lot of people wear shoes they can't walk in.
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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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Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.
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What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.
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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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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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Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
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I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.
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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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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.
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Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.
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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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