Often they do go back and forth the whole way, and I don't know until the very end what the last line of the book is going to be. That was true here - the very last line of the book was the last thing that happened. Lynne Rae Perkins More Quotes by Lynne Rae Perkins More Quotes From Lynne Rae Perkins I know I'm still young and there's a lot of time for things to happen, but sometimes I think there is something about me that's wrong, that I'm not the kind of person anyone can fall in love with, and that I'll always just be alone. Lynne Rae Perkins falling-in-love kind thinking I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot. Lynne Rae Perkins age way years In some ways I'm very structured. Lynne Rae Perkins way I don't think about it that much, but sometimes I am surprised by that. I sometimes wonder why I didn't turn out to be the kind of picture-book writer who has stuffed animals that go with their books. That would be okay with me. Lynne Rae Perkins animal book thinking One of my favorite moments in that book [As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth] was when something happened that I had no idea was going to happen. Lynne Rae Perkins book ideas fall I don't want to make myself sound that spontaneous, because I'm not. Lynne Rae Perkins spontaneous sound want I generally have an idea where I want to go, but I don't know how I'm going to get there. Lynne Rae Perkins know-how want ideas I love that when you're writing your mind is sort of figuring things out on its own, without you directing it. Lynne Rae Perkins figuring-things mind writing I made a drawing for a book I'm working . It's a little drawing of a girl who's ashamed and upset and hides in the corner of the closet. It's the kind of drawing that I feel like I'm really good at. Lynne Rae Perkins drawing girl book If I could make a career out of drawing little girls hiding in corners, I would do really well. Lynne Rae Perkins drawing careers girl I know if I did that [career as painter] all the time I would get tired of it. Lynne Rae Perkins painter tired careers I had read [Charles] Dickens's novels were often published serially. I thought it would be fun to write a book, just sitting down and writing a chapter every day, not knowing what would happen next. So that's how I wrote the first draft. And then of course I had to go back and make sure everything worked and change things. Lynne Rae Perkins writing fun book I started thinking about [ what book is going to go next] when I was working on As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth. Lynne Rae Perkins book fall thinking I'm structured with time. Lynne Rae Perkins We had a dog, Lucky, who was fourteen years old. For the last year of his life, I would take him on these walks that were long but didn't cover much distance. Lynne Rae Perkins distance dog years With most of my books, there are some parts that pop up right away, and other parts I have to wait for. Lynne Rae Perkins pops waiting book Ideas mostly come from the work itself. Often when I'm drawing, the words will be bouncing around in my head, and when I'm writing, ideas about the drawing happen. Lynne Rae Perkins drawing writing ideas I don't like things to be static when I'm working. Lynne Rae Perkins static I do like to be surprised. Lynne Rae Perkins The morning time is also a time when I look at what I did yesterday. That's often a jumping-off point for today. Lynne Rae Perkins jumping yesterday morning
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