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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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Alex Flinn
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 23
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Alexandra Flinn
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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 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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Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.
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A beautiful thing is precious no matter the price
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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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What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.
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Everyone can use a little beauty.
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You are right. I have no idea, and it is none of my business, and I was taught to obey my parents. But sometimes it is just impossible to obey blindly. Sometimes a child must strike out on her own. A child cannot be a child forever, whether that means not touching a spindle or . . . or . . .
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Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.
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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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Good to know: Doctors can't cure you of being a beast.
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This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City.
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I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.
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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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I am a princess. I do not follow fashions--I make them.
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Seem like a lot of people wear shoes they can't walk in.
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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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The magic is over, but its effects will live forever.
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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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Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.
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