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Irvine, being a planned community, is really good shorthand, especially in a movie or book, for understanding suburban pressures.
- Andrea Seigel
#Book
#Community
#Good
#Understanding
The first time I ever heard professional actors delivering lines that I wrote was completely surreal and was just a gigantic moment in my life. It was just a little bit mind-blowing and completely strange to have something that had been on my computer being said out loud.
- Andrea Seigel
#First Time
#Life
#Moment
#My Life
#Time
Because teenagers don't have adult responsibilities yet, you can create your own drama, and it's a universe of your own emotions.
- Andrea Seigel
#Adult
#Create
#Drama
#Emotions
#Universe
Try to remember that decisions are made by individual, fallible personalities, not gods. It's hard. I know.
- Andrea Seigel
#Gods
#Hard
#Know
#Remember
#Try
I've dreamed of having my French bulldog become a bestselling children's heroine.
- Andrea Seigel
#Become
#Bulldog
#Children
#Heroine
I lean toward anything with a dark sense of humor. And since I've been out of school, the majority of my books have been contemporary; basically, I like my characters to have electricity - even better, a TV.
- Andrea Seigel
#Better
#Dark
#Electricity
#Humor
#School
The second book was probably the result of the relationship I was in at the time. We were only going to be compatible for a minute, and I think we both knew it. It's like how you can be a different person on vacation, but you know all along you're just visiting that mindset.
- Andrea Seigel
#Know
#Person
#Relationship
#Result
#Time
I think a conceptual idea comes to me first - something I've been mulling over a lot right before I feel like writing a book - and then the characters start to develop around it.
- Andrea Seigel
#Feel
#First
#Me
#Right
#Start
I can be like that: forgetting how hard it was to do something after I'm past it.
- Andrea Seigel
#Forgetting
#Hard
#I Can
#Past
#Something
I'm definitely very interested in doing female narrators that aren't typically feminine or emotional or soft - especially teenage girls - because I have such a hard time relating to so many of them that I read. They feel psychologically cuter to me than I ever was.
- Andrea Seigel
#Doing
#Feel
#Hard
#Me
#Time
Irvine is such a safe, stable, planned community, and I'm a person who has a lot of inner longing for drama and romance. So I think in some way the structure of Irvine made me more creative because I had these boundaries, and I thought outside them.
- Andrea Seigel
#Community
#Drama
#Me
#Person
#Way
I'd go to the library so I could sit in a big, quiet room and listen to pages being turned. There was a boring librarian who everyone in fifth grade hated. But I loved her because when she would read us stories in her soft voice, she'd turn my head into a snow globe.
- Andrea Seigel
#Boring
#Library
#Room
#Sit
#Voice
Old-school viewers remain adamant that 'The Real World' has deteriorated, as if the original enterprise were some pristine experiment that got sullied as the conditions in the lab got sloppier.
- Andrea Seigel
#Conditions
#Experiment
#Got
#Real
#World
I've never read any of the '50 Shades of Grey' books because the Internet pre-educated me about the 'my inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves' material.
- Andrea Seigel
#Doing
#Goddess
#Grey
#Internet
#Me
I do not believe that I will ever write an adult novel from an animal's point of view unless someday it becomes suddenly appealing to me to make a narrator a mentally ill pet. Never say never.
- Andrea Seigel
#Believe
#Me
#Pet
#Point Of View
#View
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