Ann Brashares
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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth30 July 1967
CityAlexandria, VA
CountryUnited States of America
father book two
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.
baby character losing-yourself
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.
moving heart blood
You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.
summer important reason
For some reason our lives were marked by summers. . . . Summer was the time when our lives joined completely, when we all had our birthdays, when really important things happened
ideas way world
I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.
knowing blurry transition
I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.
attitude pirate sparrows
The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? -Coach Brevin
moving each-day littles
Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said "Walk" the second you go there- and downticks- the itch tag at the back of your collar- that happened to every person in the course of the day. Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day.
jobs writing mean
Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to write total nonsense for as long as I need to release the pressure, because it's really hard to start if you feel like that first sentence you write has to actually mean something.
writing ideas doubt
There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle through.
grief six-months rooms
Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.
fall writing ideas
I dont really write with the idea of trying to teach any lessons. I want to tell a story as truthfully and engagingly as I can, and then let the chips fall where they may.
possibility
When there is nothing, there is the possibility of everything.
past remember ifs
You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.