Quotes by Ann Brashares

About Ann Brashares:

Ann Brashares is an American writer of young adult fiction. She is best known as the author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series.
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Lena studied the faces of the girls on the sidelines. She could tell that Kostos owned the lust of what few local teenage girls there were in Oia, but instead he chose to dance with all the grandmothers, all the women who had raised him, who had pour...

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They were the sisterhood: their mothers at a younger age.

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Tibby sat on the outside of a group of kids in the film program. There was a lot of dark clothing and heavy footwear, and quite a few piercings glinting in sunlight. They had invited her to sit with them while they all finished up their lunches befor...

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I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.

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Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.

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sometimes you need to make a mess.

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As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.

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I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.

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I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.

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I look back on my 20s. It's supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you're making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes.

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As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

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The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.

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My household is, in a nice way, very busy.

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To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.

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It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

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Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

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A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground.

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When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books.

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Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.

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Lena, listen to me, okay? We don't have much more time here. You are in love. I've never seen anything like this before. You have to be brave, okay? You have to go and tell Kostos how you feel. I swear to God if you don't, you will regret it for the ...

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She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.

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Author Bio

  • NameAnn Brashares
  • DescriptionAmerican children's writer
  • BornJuly 30, 1967
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist