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
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.
wise people enough
It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.
people
People will notice the beauty of what they usually ignore ~
two perfect people
You've always been two people. The Jenna who wants to please and the Jenna who secretly resents in. They won't break, you know. Your parents never thought you were perfect. You did.
people longer-life
Words have longer lives than people.
dancing people one-day
Pieces. A bit for someone here. A bit there. And sometimes they don't add up to anything whole. But you are so busy dancing. Delivering. You don't have time to notice. Or are afraid to notice. And then one day you have to look. And it's true. All of your pieces fill up other people's holes. But they don't fill your own.
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.
alter bit cling course idealism lives teens time
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.
affect among change cultural growth history teens time vulnerable
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.
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.
cell ethical five however stem
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.
grandma grandmother law
I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.