Not that my arms are getting tired or anything, but... how much longer is the hugging phase going to last? Robin Wasserman More Quotes by Robin Wasserman More Quotes From Robin Wasserman I should probably start with the blood. Robin Wasserman shouldblood 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. Robin Wasserman fundamentalsoppositesdream I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down. Robin Wasserman jumpingwritingway Don't go looking in dark places, because dark things live there. Robin Wasserman dark-thingsdark-placesdark I try not to think too much about an audience when Im writing the first draft of a book - at that stage, the prospect of anyone reading what Ive written would be enough to scare me into setting my laptop on fire. Robin Wasserman readingwritingbook 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. Robin Wasserman friendsprisonhairwind Of course Stephen King doesn't believe in teen novels. I've started to suspect he doesn't even believe in teenagers. Robin Wasserman teenagersteenkingbelieve 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. Robin Wasserman alonedrawingtimecharacter
