An Na
An Na
An Nais a South Korea-born American children's book author. Starting her career as a middle school English and History teacher, Na turned to writing novels after taking a young adult literature class while enrolled in an M.F.A. program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She gained success with her very first novel A Step From Heaven, published by Front Street Press in 2001, which won the annual Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association recognizing the year's "best...
NationalitySouth Korean
ProfessionAuthor
cutting half careful
Careful, love. Prices aren't the only things I can cut in half!
game gave half opening usual
We did not play our usual game in the first half and gave away too many opening chances.
front hard korean pressed sound
If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl.
believe vampire firsts
First rule about vampires, don`t believe anything you read.
halos hats
Hats are like a halo of happiness,
people trying identity
Try becoming a person people want to be with rather than conforming yourself to the false identity of what you conceive their ideal to be.
focus quality improvement
A massive amount of quantity with a deliberate focus on improvement leads to the knowledge and experience of how to make quality.
deserve
No one deserves anything from you. No one deserves your trust or your love—they have to earn it.
confused school names
French name. English accent. American school. Anna confused.
worst critics feels
I feel like we tend to be our own worst critics.
fashion looks uncomfortable
Fashion is always uncomfortable. When you get comfortable, you never get the look.
letting-go falling-in-love thinking
The wrong kind of guy to fall in love with is the guy who will let go of the steering wheel as a joke. A guy who finds it amusing to make you uncomfortable, which is more common than you'd think, is someone you want to avoid.
common figure finding help interpret learning remember trying understand upset
I remember learning new words, trying to figure out what common things like cider, finding myself upset that my parents couldn't help me understand this new culture, that it was up to me to interpret for them as well as myself.
intensity open people places sound struggling though
I had been struggling with how to create a child-like protagonist's voice without making it sound as though I was 'dumbing down' to the character. They are able to see events, people and places with an intensity and open mindedness that adults lack.