I felt vulnerable and very much between friends. I remember walking down the hallway and thinking I had no way of knowing what was coming, literally. This wasn't because I had some horrific bullying story, but because of a steady drip of negativity.
From Rebecca Stead
On Sunday, I think the most important thing for me is to just turn my brain off. The idea of not trying is the key, because that's where you're relaxed enough to let your brain make new connections.
As a reader, I much prefer to read a book where people embody all kinds of ideas and everybody is making mistakes.
I never had a favourite book! I liked all kinds of things - science fiction, so I read Heinlen and Ray Bradbury, and I also liked reading about kids like myself, so I read Judy Blume and Norma Klein and Paula Danzinger and a lot of other writers. I also read James Herriot!
A lot of my ideas for books come from newspaper articles. But I don't like to be actively looking for ideas.
I do try to write in ways that reflect reality, and I think that reality is rarely simple.
Every published writer suffers through that first draft because most of the time, that's a disappointment.
I think things hit me very hard, and I wish I had allowed things to roll off my back a little bit more.
I would never look a gift horse in the mouth. I've had some lovely homemade earrings and, recently, a wall hanging made in the style of Georges Seurat.
I read a whole lot as a child, and, of course, I still read children's books.
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