Robin Wasserman
Robin Wasserman
Robin Wassermanis an American young adult novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth31 May 1978
CountryUnited States of America
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'The Waking Dark' is about what happens when something awakens a town's darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.
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The Waking Dark is about what happens when something awakens a towns darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.
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Of course Stephen King doesn't believe in teen novels. I've started to suspect he doesn't even believe in teenagers.
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As someone who writes and teaches YA fiction, I spend a lot of time trying to define its character and readership, and I don't think I'm alone - genres are all about boundary drawing, and the YA genre is, in a lot of ways, about carving out boundaries around adolescence, a space for teenagers to do teenage things.
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Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions. I crawled along my swing set, searching for escape routes from my maximum-security prison; I biked through the neighborhood, the wind in my hair and a fleet of evildoers on my heels.
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I'm not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or 'let the characters speak through me,' whatever that might mean.
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I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could happen. But maybe that particular delusion was universal.
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Full Disclosure: I hate David with the passion of a thousand fiery suns all going to supernova at the same time
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But things don't just fall apart. People break them.
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In dreams you can become everything you're not. You can reverse the most fundamental truths of your life. You can taste death, the ultimate opposite.
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I should probably start with the blood.
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A fundamentalist is someone who wants to substitute what he believes for what you believe," Max said. "And someone who thinks he knows the will of God better than anyone else.
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Not that my arms are getting tired or anything, but... how much longer is the hugging phase going to last?
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There are some moments you'd rather sleep through, pass from point A to point B without awareness of the time passing or the events that carry you from present to future. And it's mostly those moments in which it's smarter-safer- to stay awake.