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This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City.

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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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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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You shouldn't miss someone who don't miss you, right?
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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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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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Good to know: Doctors can't cure you of being a beast.
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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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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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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 was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.
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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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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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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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Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.
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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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Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.
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The magic is over, but its effects will live forever.
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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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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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A shoe that fits one person pinches another.
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