Chelsea Cain
Chelsea Cain
Chelsea Snow Cainis an American novelist and columnist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 February 1972
CountryUnited States of America
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There will be time to diet when people stopped killing one another.
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Our relationship is complicated by the fact that I am emotionally retarded.
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You find that you have lot of time on your hands when you suddenly are not drinking because you are pregnant.
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Something about the way she moves through the world does not lend itself to the care of fragile objects.
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I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach.
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When I say that I went to grad school in Iowa City, people often assume that I went to the famed writers' workshop MFA program at the University of Iowa. I didn't. I got a master's in journalism.
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Every year, I give my dad an advance copy of my latest book. He reads it over the next several nights and says something incredibly supportive. Then he clears his throat nervously and changes the subject.
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Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they create characters and then just sort of follow them around through the narrative. I think that these writers are out of their minds.
You won't make a living writing until you learn to write when you don't want to.
There's not a lot of arc in an actual psychopath.
people
Often we don't even know what we think ourselves about people in our lives.
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Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer.
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No matter what fabulous place I visit, I don't feel like I'm on vacation unless I'm dehydrated and covered with sunscreen.
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Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.