Mary E. Pearson
Mary E. Pearson
Mary E. Pearsonis an American children's writer best known for young-adult fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth14 August 1955
CountryUnited States of America
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Percentages! Those are for economists, polls, and politicians. Percentages can't define your identity.
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The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others.
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I decide that sometimes definitions are wrong. Even if they're written in a dictionary. Identities aren't always separate and distinct. Sometimes they ARE wrapped up with others. Sometimes, for a few minutes, maybe they can even be shared. And if I am ever fortunate enough to return to Mr. Bender's garden, I wonder if the birds will see that piece of him that is wrapped up in me.
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I've discovered I love the vast landscape a series offers. I tend to write long anyway, so, it turns out, series gives me the perfect vehicle for writing 'large' stories.
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Teens are passionate, questioning, curious, have a bit of the idealism I still cling to, and they're making decisions for the first time that can alter the course of their lives - and sometimes, the course of the world.
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Teens affect history. They affect lives; they affect our cultural growth and change, and yet, and at the same time, they are often the most vulnerable among us.
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When I first began writing, and I told people what I wrote, I'd get a blank stare and sometimes a 'Huh?' They weren't sure what young adult literature was. Now everyone knows.
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I am undependable. You might get gritty contemporary with one book, science fiction, magical realism, or high fantasy with another.
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I have a manuscript that I'm almost done with, but I've been saying that forever. I'm on what I think will be the second-to-last chapter. It's a story about chance and coincidence.
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Fifty years in the future, I should hope we'll be on our second woman president, at least.
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What we think is ethical today, we may not have thought ethical five or 10 years ago. Cloning, stem cell research? However we feel about those things today, we may feel differently 10 years from now.
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I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.
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I suppose you're right about some perspectives. Just a few weeks ago, I thought you were a dickhead.
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It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.