Quotes by Alex Flinn

About Alex Flinn:

Alexandra Flinn is an American writer of novels for young adults. To date, she has written ten books and one original e-book, that have been published with another due in September, 2015. Her books have appeared on the New York Times and USA Today Bestseller lists and have been translated into over twenty foreign languages.
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I don't believe in the white spectre-type of ghosts you get in stories, but what if ghosts are something else? Like memories somehow caught and trapped in time, released by being in certain places where things first happened.

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There are lots of different ways grown-ups disappear. It's lonely being the one left behind.

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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, maybe hit someone. Ever feel like you're breathing underwater, and...

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It's easier to fake it. When you fake it for sixteen years, it becomes part of you, something you don't think about.

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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 until he finds you.

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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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Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.

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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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I enjoy people who aren't afraid to say what they mean. It makes life so much easier!

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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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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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I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

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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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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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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 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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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 becaus...

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Of course, maybe I'd end up like one of those crazy old people with, like, sixty cats. And one day, the neighbors would complain about the smell, and it would turn out I'd died and the cats had eaten me. Still, it might be nice to have a cat.

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The whole thing was like a divorce. When we divided everything up, Courtney got my dignity, and I got the heartache.

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What happened to romance? sappy soppy longhand love letters.

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Author Bio

  • NameAlex Flinn
  • DescriptionAmerican children's writer
  • BornOctober 23, 1966
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist