Zitat des Tages von Ann Brashares:
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.
It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
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.
The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.
To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world.
As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
