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9 quotes by Robin Wasserman

Robin Wasserman (born May 31, 1978) is an American young adult novelist. Wasserman grew up outside of Philadelphia and graduated from Harvard University and UCLA. Before she was an author she was an associate editor at a children's book publisher. She is currently living in Brooklyn, New York.
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I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.

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I'm not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or 'let the characters speak through me,' whatever that might mean.

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Of course Stephen King doesn't believe in teen novels. I've started to suspect he doesn't even believe in teenagers.

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'The Waking Dark' is about what happens when something awakens a town's darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.

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As someone who writes and teaches YA fiction, I spend a lot of time trying to define its character and readership, and I don't think I'm... →

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For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering especially... →

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I try not to think too much about an audience when I'm writing the first draft of a book - at that stage, the prospect of anyone reading what... →

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Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret... →

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Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all... →

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