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
mean pieces life-is
Pieces. Isn't that what all of life is anyway? Shards. Bits. Moments. Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?
life breathe surface
Maybe staying on the surface keeps her from returning to a place where she can't breathe.
life giving-up dont-give-up
... Change doesn't happen overnight-it's molded by people who don't give up
people longer-life
Words have longer lives than people.
life impossible
Maybe the impossible is possible when you take everything else away.
life dark choices
We all have a dark place in us. It's what we do with it and the choice we make.
life moving becoming
Escape is not about moving from one place to another. It's about becoming more.
discovered gives love series tend turns vast vehicle
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.
adult began blank literature people stare sure
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.
gritty high magical might science
I am undependable. You might get gritty contemporary with one book, science fiction, magical realism, or high fantasy with another.
almost chance manuscript saying
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.
fifty future hope second
Fifty years in the future, I should hope we'll be on our second woman president, at least.